Quick Quotes - Round Three

[River Fenwick]

His nervousness that night was interesting psychologically. He knew danger was close at hand. And yet he never suspected me.

From The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Beans have been sent.

Our last prompt for July is:

Food, wonderful food

Lunch was served at twelve and featured something called "simple crème fraiche chicken and vegetables," which turned out to be roasted chicken with crispy skin and meat so tender it fell apart under the pressure of my fork, served with fresh spinach, citrus, almonds and some sort of heavenly dressing.

from Sweep In Peace by Ilona Andrews

[Emily Spencer]

Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.

From: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurer

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

From “The Grim Grotto” by Lemony Snicket:

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

[River Fenwick]

The moment I slide into my chair I'm served an enormous platter of food. Eggs, ham, piles of fried potatoes. A tureen of fruit sits in ice to keep it chilled. The basket of rolls they set before me would keep my family going for a week.

From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

[Emily Spencer]

Beans have been sent!

Our first prompt for August is:

The description of the villain in an adventure film

This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.

From The Child Thief by Gerald Brom

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

From “ The Witches” by Roald Dahl:

Her mind will always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty thoughts.

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

The description of the villain in an adventure film

A massive leonine paw moved into the light, easily five feet across. Claws shot out and struck the stone.
Oh no.
A colossal shoulder followed, then the other, then the broad muscular chest sheathed in sandy fur, a thick neck crowned with a dark rust mane, and finally the giant head, a strange, disturbing mix of lion and human, anthropomorphic, horrifying, yet cohesive.

from Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

[River Fenwick]

She didn't see how his face had changed in the long months of separation, how it had hardened, how the lines pulled in different directions now. She didn't see that the unconscious smile she remembered would not physically fit on this new face. Only once had she seen his face turn dark and dangerous, and that expression was nothing to the one he wore now.

From The Host by Stephenie Meyer

[Emily Spencer]

Beans have been sent!

The next prompt for August is:

Lyrics of a song

Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home.

From The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

From “Uglies” by Scott Westerfeld:

You weren’t born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

From The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Sing hey! For the bath at close of day
that washes the weary mud away
A loon is he that will not sing
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!

[River Fenwick]

The sunflower of my youth is wilting.
The tower of my dreams is tilting.
The zoom lens of my zest is blurred.
The drama of my life’s absurd.

From The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth

[Emily Spencer]

Beans have been sent!

The next prompt for August is:


A line you would print on the back cover to sell your book:

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

From: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

From “Cinder” by Marissa Meyer:

Even in the future, the story begins with Once Upon a Time.

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

A line you would print on the back cover to sell your book:

Being present is always infinitely more powerful than anything one could say or do, although sometimes being present can give rise to words or actions.

from A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

[River Fenwick]

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.

From The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

[Emily Spencer]

Beans have been sent!

Our next prompt for August is:

Advice for Travelers

It’s not the wolves or bears you should be afraid of. The night creatures, the ones with no name who come alive in the moonlight—those are the things you should be worried about.

From Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Advice for Travelers

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

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



(How could I resist? )

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

From “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath” by Sylvia Plath:

You fool – you are afraid of being alone with your own mind. You just better learn to know yourself, to make sure decisions before it is too late. Your room is not your prison. You are.