A Silly Book Game Part 42

Easy Rules:*

1. Grab the book you're currently reading.
2. Find a quote which answers the question in the post above yours.
3. Tell us what book you're quoting (include author's name).
4. Find another quote from the same book (a question this time) for the next poster to answer.

Hint: It's really great if both your answer and question are related, but that's not absolutely necessary.

*Newbies welcome!

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Continuing with my last post...
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"I done pondered over this thing many a time..."

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

"Where do you intend to go now?"

"... a place called Agia Galini, meaning "Holy Peace."

The Nature Instinct: Relearning Our Lost Intuition for the Inner Workings of the Natural World by Tristan Gooley

"But what happens next?"

“Princess D, queen of D-Land is coming today!”

Sailor Moon, Volume 1 - Naoko Takeuchi

“What’s up with the cops today?”

"Well, I'll tell you. It’s like an ants' nest," he said. "An ants' nest that's always being rattled with a stick ... "

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley

"Is there much damage?"

"It contained a layer of pasty, semi-liquid black muck several centimeters thick: decaying feces reeking of ammonia and crawling with maggots."

One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives by Bernd Heinrich

"With no consistently predictable time or place to go, what then?"

We wavered around the stone point where the trail goes; then we were in the archipelago of islands, tips of sunken hills, once possibly a single ridge before the lake was flooded.

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

"How would you like," I said, "to pick some blueberries?"

"It's very kind of you, but...no thank you."

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

"The kitchen's amazing, isn't it?"

What a joy it is in life when you happen to have a clean, warm kitchen. It has never happened to me. I have never been good at keeping order around me.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

"Where did they get those fancy cars and houses?"

"...our own mission here in Ihonitiria..."

The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

"How did everyone know to stop at this place?"

"NO TRESPASSERS
NO UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY BEYOND THIS POINT
BY ORDER"

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris

"What did I tell you?"

"It sounded a lot worse than it was..."

The Death of Santini - Pat Conroy

"Do I have to draw you a picture?"

"A lovely and accurate picture of an inventor's life!" he laughed.

The Lark by E. Nesbit

"He's been paying you a good deal of attention, hasn't he?"

"He's doing what he always does." (67)

Motor Spirit by Jarett Kobek

"And what's Bryan concerned about?" (89)

"The boy wants to see where his mama was born..."

The Death of Santini - Pat Conroy

"Why are all these men around the house?"

" ... We meet every few years. Mostly abroad. But this time I brought them here. For what you might call a little conference."

The Magicians by J. B. Priestley

"Was it an interesting experience?"

"I only spent one coin. Didn't waste any money."

Solito - Javier Zamora

"How's Margarita?"

"After all, the scene was grotesque—the naked woman lying in the grass, the dressed man standing moodily by with his hands in his pockets."

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

"Did I hit the sergeant?"

"there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other."

The Trial- Franz Kafka

"Do you presume I'm guilty too?"

"Well, somebody pushed her down the stairs," Mrs. Willow said. "She never fell by herself."

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

"Carry packages? I?"

"nothing beats on-the-job training."

Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch

"How did you know it was an alien?"

Its left and right limbs were jointed at three places, and its stride length was close to six feet.

Illegal Alien by Robert J. Sawyer

"How long do you need to prepare?"

"at least twenty minutes each morning in moustache prep alone."

Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One by Jack Townsend

"How did the dark god style his hair into a mohawk? Is he using hairspray? Where did that come from?”

"Yaroslav's renowned glass cabinet." (393)

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

"What do you think, mein Herr? A dapper hat?" (103)

"It looked like a Walkman ate another Walkman, exploded, then underwent reconstructive surgery in the dark with liberal amounts of electrical tape."

Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend

“You know you’ve got a giant bug crawling out of your eye-hole, right?”

A fly -- a fat blue gem, covered in fine, downy hair -- wanders across Felicita's face.

Murder Most Serene by Gabrielle Wittkop

"Who's there?"

"It’s me. I got another one for your collection, but I’m gonna need some help hauling her out of a ditch."

Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three by Jack Townsend

"What is our purpose on this planet?"

"...to study matural sciences, higher mathematics, history, and music..."

Benjamin Banneker and Us - Rachel Jamison Webster

"Am I remembering that right?"

I hesitated before answering, but then I remembered exactly how it felt being trapped with nothing but my vivid hallucinations and overactive imagination to keep me company.

Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three by Jack Townsend

I must have been crazy. Why else would I have left the safety of the tent to venture out into the crowd?

"Only for money..."

Benjamin Banneker and Us - Rachel Jamison Webster

"What did my brother say?"

"He said he’d give me half an hour in return for free sodas for life."

Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three by Jack Townsend

“Dude, what the hell happened to you?”

Rex got away. I had to hunt for him.

Arthur: The Beginning by Walter Stoffel

"Can you get up by yourself? You want some help?"

"That is generous of you."

Benjamin Banneker and Us - Rachel Jamison Webster

"What now? Is some alien going to jump out at me?"

"Yes, indeed. What a turn the times have taken!"

The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy

"In what way is he wicked?"

"He wore silk shirts."

The Misses Mallett by E. H. Young

"Now what are your instructions?"

“Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being…”

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

“What is it in ourselves that we should prize?”

"My foot's a long way from my brain."

The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

"Will we have cake for tea on my birthday?"

"I have it in my bag right here."

Brown Boy - Omer Aziz

"What's so funny?"

"I sent one boy to the gaschambers at Huntsville."

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

"What's the problem, officer?"

“Federal police in Mississaugua have arrested eighteen men on charges of terrorism.”

Brown Boy - Omer Aziz

“So, what do you want to do with your life?”

"What does it matter? We have enough money."

Slow River by Nicola Griffith

"Do you really need this equipment?"

"She pressed a 3.25 disk into his hands."

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

"How do I get in touch with you?"

"If you can't see it, there's no use going into it."

Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You like to help everybody, don't you?"

But she shook her head. "I'm afraid that's not what I'm saying at all...."

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

"What's that low humming?"

"...the wind whistling through ill-fitted window frames"

Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons

"Where is your VCR?"

"By the river, on the way to the store."

The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada

"What about you? Do you have a device like that?"

"It remains the only one we have."

Carrion Comfort

"Are you sure you can get the equipment started without keys?"

“Oh, yes,” I say neutrally.

“…how come I never know when you’re having a nightmare?” I say.

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

>48 SweetCaroline765: "...it isn't for sweet, delicate young ladies, like you.."

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"How can you shut your eyes and ears?"

Georg Vittorin sat there with half-closed eyes. Herr Ebenseder's droning voice sounded very remote.

Little Apple by Leo Perutz

"What happened then?"

"I don't know. Something about a killin'."

The Trees - Percival Everett

"Just what is going on, Special Agent Hind?"

He urinated outside the shack...

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

"Did they search for me?"

He wafted his hand, no need.

The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey

"I always think that a village that can still find the spirit for pranks is in good health, don't you?"

"It's risky."

Yesteryear - Stephen G. Eoannou

"Who is this man with a small chin?"

"That's not enough. I must find you some more."

The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner

"How much for a vicar?" she enquired.

"More than you think."

Ordinary Gods and Monsters by Chris Womersley

"There was a familiar smell, something sharp - what was that?"

I knew that smell. It was the unmistakable stench of bat droppings.

The Mummy Case: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense by Elizabeth Peters

"Whom are you expecting?"

“Unwary hippos, careless tourists.”

Cat Brushing by Jane Campbell

“Was she ashamed?”

"Those things happen."

The Other Americans - Laila Lalami

"How are you holding up?"

"Come back tomorrow. Bring me something I can sell or eat."

Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax

"Shouldn't you be with your wife?"

“She has long accepted that I will not return to Saint Rémy during her lifetime.”

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

“What’s the secret you can’t let others hear?”

"I've also killed a man, you know."

Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

"You got American dollars?"

Death reached into the depths of his robe and brought out a large leather bag full of assorted copper coinage, most of it blue and green with age.

Mort by Terry Pratchett

"What are we going to do now?"

"Let's get married."

My Seven Black Fathers - Will Jawando

"How exactly would that work?"

"... every married woman is an angel chained to a satyr."

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

"Why?"

"We are taught, as women, that whether or not we have value as human beings depends on what men think of us."

Why I Am Not a Feminist by Jessica Crispin

"How can anyone ever deal with the overwhelming despair of the world without being subsumed by it?"

"New Orleans...Naked women. Strip shows. Liquor flowing in the street."

My Losing Season - Pat Conroy

"What do you think about that?"

"My lord, all this occurred in your youth."

Reynard the Fox by James Simpson

"Do you think you've fooled me?"

“No…promising I’m not.”

My Losing Season - Pat Conroy

“How do I explain to Mel why I was laughing my ass off last night?”

"I offered to call him."

Reviving Ophelia (25th anniversary edition) by Mary Pipher and Sara Gilliam

"How can I be responsive but not responsible for everyone?"