Quote by Sam Lipsyte

“From here he could see the farmer's daughter in the yard, feeding the geese. Wasn't there a nursery rhyme in there somewhere? No, he…

— Kate Atkinson

“I asked Mr. Wrangle what you were like. He said you were hornet juice and rosebuds in a container of gazelle meat.”

— Tom Robbins

“And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because…

— Jean Plaidy

“Joad rolled the coat up more tightly. “An old turtle,’’ he said. “Picked him up on the road. An old bulldozer. Thought I’d take…

— John Steinbeck

“He was a second too late. Ducking, the felt-capped man, muscles hard, dragged himself out of that grasp and, flinging off to one side,…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“If you ask me the man's short a hat size or two but he's harmless. Not like the Texas Kid or the Tuscon Kid.…

— Margaret Brownley

“ 'What i you're the Big Bad Wolf?' he managed to quip. Neal's eyes widened. 'Then you'd better be Little Red Riding Hood, son.'…

— Rachel Wilder

“With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling…

— Charles Dickens

“When the children were very small I spent weeks alone with them high up in the Welsh hills and I used to lose the…

— Alice Thomas Ellis

“The van stank of cabbage and cornered like a drunken elephant. It would do.”

— Kate Griffin

“Mr. Li gives Dale and me free lessons for life. Dale hates it. I enjoy kicking others, but would do better in an art…

— SheilaTurnage

“He couldn’t have moved quicker if he had been the dachshund Poppet, who at this juncture was running round in circles, trying, if I…

— P.G. Wodehouse