Ja, det er Gwendolyn," sa Paul. "Og den fyren som klamrer seg til henne som om hun var yndlingsbamsen hans, er fetternevøen min.

It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. "Glockenspiel", Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he'd found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away.

The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided version of the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)

When the sun shone, he rejoiced. When the rain fell, he rejoiced. When neither sun shone no rain fell, he rejoiced.He was a one-speed kind of guy, Adam, until Eve came along.

What was Eden if not an exercise in Divine ambivalence?

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

Og det er nemlig det jeg trur Gud egentlig er, Charlie. Den biten ta meg sjøl som er sterkere og hardere enn alt anna. Og jeg tror bønn bare handler om å stole på'n, ha tru på'n, bare be meg sjøl om å væra tøff.

Det er det om er fordelen med å ikke ha noe å tape. Det æ'kke no' vits i å sette seg ned å sutre. Og hvis detta er alt du trur på, å værra her og nå, så er'u ikke truandes tell å kaste bort noe av det, er du vel?

O hell! to choose love by another's eyes!

O, that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!

"Alle er dumme når jeg er sur." sto det på en plakat vi hadde hengende på kjøkkenet vårt i mange år. Vi har funnet ut at det stemmer ganske godt.

The stars mean different things to different people. For some they are nothing more than twinkling lights in the sky. For travellers they are guides. For scholars they are food for thought. For my businessman they are wealth. But for everyone the stars are silent. Except from now on just for you..." "What do you mean?" "When you look up at the sky at night, since I shall be living on one of them and laughing on one of them, for you it will be as if all the stars were laughing. You and only you will have stars that can laugh!

If they are properly swept, volcanoes burn gently and regularly, without any eruptions. Volcanic eruptions are like chimney fires. On Earth, of course, we are too small to sweep our volcanoes.That is why they cause so much trouble.

Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups.

My friend never explained anything to me. Perhaps he thought I was like him. But, unfortunatley, I cannot see sheep through boxes. Perhaps I am a little like grown-ups. I am getting old.

Allan hadde alltid tenkt som så når det gjaldt troen, at når man tross alt ikke kunne vite sikkert, var det liten vits i å gå rundt å gjette

Aviendha's slow breathing seemed loud in his ears until he fell asleep, and then he dreamed a confused dream of Min and Elayne helping him throw Aviendha, wearing nothing but that necklace, over his shoulder while she beat him over the head with a wreath of segade blossoms.

Katherine, for det første er det ikke slik magi fungerer. Det er ikke bare å si hokus-pokus, så dukker det opp noen fra tomme lufta. Nå ja, jo, det hender jo, men ikke i dette tilfellet

Brillene hadde fått seg en trøkk og satt litt skeivt på nesa, som om han hadde vært i et mindre uhell. Dressen så ut som den hadde vært i det samme uhellet, og kanskje et par til.

Det så nærmest ut som om han hadde kledd på seg under en virvelvind, men funnet ut at han så for presentabel ut og for sikkerhets skyld kastet seg utfor en trapp