Able Quote by Douglas Adams

He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.

— Anonymous

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of…

— Markus Zusak

“Then he imposed a set of new rules: nobody touch anything, especially not his toothbrush. (He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one…

— Michael Wolff

“He would have been half-hanged, taken down alive, castrated, his genitals stuffed in his mouth, his stomach slit open, and his intestines taken out…

— John Broadbent

Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took…

— Kim Harrison

“Denny was not so lucky. The bear’s teeth had clamped down on the side of his head, tearing his scalp and ripping his left…

— Ryan Seek

“A warm flow of pain was gradually replacing the ice and wood of the anaesthetic in his thawing, still half-dead, abominably martyred mouth. After…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his…

— Elizabeth Bishop

“That evening I was the sole guest in the huge dining room, and it was the same startled person who took my order and…

— W. G. Sebold

“As soon as he was half-awake he slipped his knickers off. Holding them close to his face, he handled them loosely for a moment…

— Derek Raymond

“A fish would not get caught if he kept his mouth shut!”

— Rick Rigsby

“It had soaked in on him at last, the spot he was in. Soaked clear through a quart of booze until it hit him…

— Jim Thompson