Quick Quotes

[Aurelia West]

Text from a book about conspiracy theories

From All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka:

Good ideas don't stand a chance against good bureaucracy.

[Sky Alton]

This week's prompt is....

Strange first words for a child

From the Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien

The road goes ever on and on....

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Strange First words for a child....

You knew I had to do this ...
From The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day. That washes the weary mud away!

[Maxim Trevelyan]

From City of Bones by Cassandra Clare:

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

[Prof. Amy Lupin]

This week's prompt is:

Part of a weather report

From Summer Knight by Jim Butcher:

It rained toads this morning.

[Maxim Trevelyan]

From Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo.

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Part of a weather report

From Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs

The air smelled different; it was cooler, and the air was damp.

[Prof. Amy Lupin]

This week's prompt is:

An unusual job or job description

From Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde:

a career procrastinator

[Maxim Trevelyan]

From Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer:

plot dastardly acts

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

An unusual job or job description

from Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs

"Hosteen is a movie star, Anna."
[ ]Hosteen smiled --
[ ]"... No real parts, just Apache number two, Hopi number eight, that sorth of thing.

[Aurelia West]

An unusual job or job description

From The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson:

choose seemingly hopeless fights and win them

[Prof. Amy Lupin]

This week's prompt is:

The meaning of life is…

From I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith:

a mixture of fiction, philosophy and poetry

[Sky Alton]

The Meaning of Life is....
From the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

42

[Maxim Trevelyan]

From Chocolat by Joanne Harris:

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate.

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

The meaning of life is…

from Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

"Love," he said.

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

This week's prompt is:

Text from a travel guide

from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an intersteller hitchhiker can have.

[Maxim Trevelyan]

From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald:

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

[Aurelia West]

Text from a travel guide

From The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins:

The 8:04 slow train from Ashbury to Euston can test the patience of the most seasoned commuter.

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

This week's prompt is:

A sentence that's twice as dramatic when read slowly

from The Sandman Overture by Neil Gaiman

Please make them comfortable: I shall endeavour not to be gone too long.

[Maxim Trevelyan]

From Frankenstein by Mary Shelley:

Beware; for I am fearless and therefore powerful.