Thungs Quotes

#1. Trains are great dirty smokey thungs", said Will. "You won't like it."
Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?"
"I've never swum naked in the Thames, but I know I wouldn't like it."
"But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa ...

Cassandra Clare

#2. A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!

M.R. James

#3. I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work.

Roger Deakin

#4. Got it," I say as he hands me a pencil skirt, a crisp long-sleeved white shirt, and some low black heels. "This is what I'm wearing?" I'm a librarian. "Can I safely assume the accessories will include glasses on a chain and my hair in a bun? Should I shush people tonight?

J.A. Huss

#5. It is God that justifieth - that justifieth the ungodly; He is not ashamed of doing it, nor are we of preaching it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Rememberatorium),

Robert Sheckley

#7. terrible fates are inevitable

Shaun Tan

#8. A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

Yogi Berra

#9. One of our sillier Zemblan proverbs says: the lost glove is happy. Promptly

Vladimir Nabokov