“My crazy's working a lot better than your sanity.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“It's a snake, then.'
'Rattler?'
'Most likely.'
I was taking this extremely well. 'We have to kill it. By we, of course, I mean you. I'll stand here and scream.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“You come from Planet Hunk, sent to Earth to protect and serve. And make the ladies happy.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Can either one of you actually fly?"
"Ummm...define fly."
I heard cursing over the radios.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Do I really run like that?" (Kitty)
"Yup," Martini confirmed. "Don't worry, I think it's sexy."
"Thank God. I think I look like a cheetah on drugs.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“I'll marry you before any tree on Earth.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Kitty, do you have the bottle?"
"In my purse. Which is in my room. Not that I think I can find my room from here."
"I'll get it," Martini said. He stood up and disappeared. Ten seconds later he was back, bottle in hand.
"What kept you?"
"That purse gets worse every time I look inside.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Once you go alien, you really do never go back.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?"
"Over my dead body."
"Could be, Tim, could be.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“I think you're cute when the power goes to your head.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“You ever flown something before?" (Christopher)
"I hold the highest score at A.S.U. for Star Wars: Starfighter." (Kitty)
"I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I'm going to regret this." (Christopher)”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“We lifted up and then bobbed.
"Back! Pull it back!" (Christopher)
"It's hard." (Kitty)
"The ground is harder!" (Christopher)”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Great. I was housing with the Extreme Morning Militants. What a joy.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“I was on the floor. "Um, a little help?"
Christopher put his hand down. Martini cleared his throat and Christopher's hand retracted.
"I can handle it, thanks."
"There's nothing amorous about pulling someone off the floor," Christopher muttered.
"There is when I do it.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Suddenly, I can see you weren’t bragging – once you go alien, you really do never go back.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Superfast beings shouldn't piss off the comics geek-girl.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“For DeHaven it was well worth the extra money to a federal budget that had always allocated more to war than it ever did to peaceful purposes. For a fraction of the cost of one missile he could purchase on the open market every work the library needed to round out its rare books collection. Yet politicians believed that missiles kept you safe, whereas actually books did, and for a simple reason. Ignorance caused wars, and people who read widely were seldom ignorant.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Collectors
“One of the gabelle’s most irritating inventions was the sel du devoir, the salt duty. Every person in the Grande Gabelle over the age of eight was required to purchase seven kilograms (15.4 pounds) of salt each year at a fixed high government price. This was far more salt than could possibly be used, unless it was for making salt fish, sausages, hams, and other salt-cured goods. But using the sel du devoir to make salted products was illegal, and, if caught, the perpetrator would be charged with the crime of faux saunage, salt fraud, which carried severe penalties. Many simple acts were grounds for a charge of faux saunage. In the Camargue, shepherds who let their flocks drink the salty pond water could be charged with avoiding the gabelle.”
― Mark Kurlansky, quote from Salt: A World History
“You need to decide to stop letting their crazy box you in.”
― Ella Fox, quote from Broken Hart
“He was hitting on you, however.”
“Reflex, not targeted.”
“Agreed, which is why he lives.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Celebrity in Death
“Sometimes it was easier to stay and suffer for the short term than to have a permanent scar reminding you of the past.”
― Peter Monn, quote from The Before Now and After Then
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