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Keith was just bringing the glass to his lips when Adrian said, Mmm. O positive, my favorite.Keith sprayed out the wine he'd just drunk and promptly started coughing. I was relieved that none got on me. Jill burst into giggles, and Clarence stared at his glass wonderingly. Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon. So it is, said Adrian, straight-faced. My mistake. — Richelle Mead

I know nothing I'm doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I'm just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I'm doing is even real, after all. But I was born right here, in this old house, and I look out the window and know what I'm seeing, and I know some people I like to be with, and I like what I do all day long, and maybe that's all that realness is, anyway — Robert Penn Warren A Place to Come...

What music do you like? he asked between calls. 'Cheery, chirpy pop.' Wincing, he pulled up a station that delivered exactly that. 'You owe me.' 'Come on' - she turned in her seat to face him once more - 'it's not that bad.' 'I'm sorry? I can't hear you past the sugar blocking my eardrums.' — Nalini Singh Secrets at...

You're joining us for dinner, I hope? asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. I guess? I said. I have to be home by ten. Also I don't, um, eat meat? No problem. We'll vegetarianize some, she said. Animals are just too cute? Gus asked. I want to minimize the number of deaths I am responsible for, I said. Gus opened his mouth to respond but then stopped himself. — John Green The Fault in Our...

"Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed." — John Marsden Tomorrow, When...

I fell out of the hammock while I was sleeping. On your head? Apparently. Good thing it's hard, huh? — Sherrilyn Kenyon The Dream Hunter

You're trying to convince me? The one who has a second apartment two blocks from her first apartment just so she can get away from her rabbit for a couple of hours a day? — David Sedaris Calypso

No milk, — Neil Gaiman Fortunately, the...

As I turned the key and pushed open the front door, as I crossed the threshold, I thought how breathtaking, how fleeting, how precious was my ordinary day Now is now. Here is my treasure. — Gretchen Rubin Happier at Home:...

This is something that has been puzzling me for years. Women will stand there watching their items being rung up, and then when the till lady says, 'That's £4.20, love,' or whatever, they suddenly look as if they've never done this sort of thing before. They go 'Oh!' and start rooting in a flustered fashion in their handbag for their purse or chequebook, as if no one had told them that this might happen. — Bill Bryson Notes from a...

When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap. — Donna Tartt The Goldfinch

Eric had to make me wake up for long enough to take out my contacts. — Julie Powell Julie & Julia:...

My sister has appendages connected to her ankles. They feature toes and arches, but I cannot call them feet. In color they resemble the leathery paws of great apes, but in texture they are closer to hooves. In order to maintain her balance, she'll periodically clear the bottoms of debris—a bottle cap, bits of broken glass, a chicken bone—but within moments she'll have stepped on something else and begun the process all over again. It's what happens when you sell both your broom and your vacuum cleaner. — David Sedaris Dress Your...

It's remarkable, being alive. Being, once again, someone walking through a dust of blowing snow, passing the window of the liquor store, which offers an array of bottles surrounded by tiny blinking lights, seeing her own reflection skim across the glass; being, once again, able to receive the ordinary pleasures, boots on the pavement, hands in the pockets of her jacket... — Michael Cunningham The Snow Queen

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that...

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. — Mitch Albom Tuesdays with...

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