“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“one of the most famous split infinitives ... To boldly go”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“nothing furnishes a room like books”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“English should not stoop to embrace the lowest common denominator. Rather, society should step up and grant the language the respect it deserves.”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
Terry Fallis
Born place: in Toronto, Canada
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“The memory stings -- and I hate that, I hate how all the good memories have turned into things that hurt -- but I need the pain.”
― Claudia Gray, quote from A Thousand Pieces of You
“O.K."
"Gee I'm glad."
"Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river."
"You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?"
"Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice
“She wore a cantilevered, augmented-breast-skimming satin dress the colour of egg-yolk. Somewhere in deepest Nebraska, a prom queen two sizes smaller than Selena was wondering where the fuck her outfit had disappeared to.”
― Tabitha McGowan, quote from The Tied Man
“She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste was for her, not him, and there was no lying about that.
"I'm starting to feel like a Tootsie Pop, here" he rasped.
She couldn't contain a smile. " Yes... how did that old commercial go?" She licked him. "One." She licked him again, and he moaned.
"Two." She licked him once more, and his hips came off the bed,
"Three.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Ecstasy Unveiled
“I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer.”
― Irvine Welsh, quote from Filth
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