Anecdote Quote by L. M. Montgomery

“Oliver, we’ve got something to tell you,” Dad says, dumping a cardboard box full of garden waste into a toad green mangler. Unlike the…

— Joe Dunthorne

“These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body…

— Justin Cronin

“I just asked the Psychic Lettuce what my future holds, and it said, 'You will live alone with sixty guinea pigs. And they will…

— Rebecca Sparrow

“Snails mate faster than Farnsworths.” Georgie gave her a chastening look. “Eliza.” “Well, it’s true. I’ve watched.” “You’ve spied on Sir Roland?” “No, I’ve…

— Tessa dare

“I also took a stab at drawing a Novem-Bear. I don't know what a Novem is, but I assumed it meant "balloon salesman." And…

— Dan Bergstein

“I am a collector of notes upon subjects that have diversity — such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a…

— Charles Fort

“Thirty minutes out, people,” I said. “Where the fuck does she live, Jupiter?” asked Sloane. “Close,” I said. “She’s in a housing development out…

— Seanan McGuire

“We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over…

— Morris L. West

“Something round and dirty and white was resting near my foot. It was a skull. I picked it up. ‘Is that you, Nicholas?’ I…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“Evie had seen dinosaurs; she had looked down upon the great forests of America from the eyes of a passenger pigeon. She had surfed…

— Stephen King

“The door opened to reveal something like the opposite of Inspector Genette: a very big man. Prognathous, callipygous, steatopygous, exophthalmos—toad, newt, frog—even the very…

— Kim Stanley Robinson