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one zealot after another speculated about new surgeries to render people incapable of sex, spoke with disgust of the ‘unwholesome slimes’ that issued from human bodies, and sang the praises of True Vegetarianism – which meant not only eschewing meat, but exterminating all animals for their obscene lives

— Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman (59%)

What she felt wasn’t hate, but it melded her to the crowd and made her feel multitudinous, godlike. It was as if the mob revolted and screamed against the treatment Julia had received, as if the people raged and broke windows in desperation at the coming death of Smith.

— Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman (59%)

She imagined a Party of the future, where everyone had Big Brother’s face, where Big Brothers hanged and tortured Big Brothers and sent Big Brothers to die in war.

— Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman (52%)

Malvolio Bent had a definition of "silly" that most people would have considered a touch on the broad side.

— Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2) by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (33)) (67%)

People don't like change. But make the change happen fast enough, and you go from one type of normal to another.

— Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2) by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (33)) (44%)

He was extremely good at delegating. But the talent requires people at the other end of the chain to be good at being delegated onto.

— Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2) by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (33)) (22%)

the carefully constructed inner self you keep around for people to find

— Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2) by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (33)) (6%)

But that wasn't really him thinking that, was it? It was just a few old brain cells running on automatic.

— Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #33) (100%)

One couldn’t escape the Meltons’ house without a demonstration of Harriet’s handwriting or a recital of her singing. Her speech was an ongoing project. For years the Meltons had housed a seedy old codger who pilfered from them and lived on gin, but whose accent was pure Inner Party. Every Party client of Mrs Melton’s was also pressed into service, and Julia had often been roped into helping Harriet subdue an intransigent vowel.

— Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman (Page 17)

It was so tiresome to be disliked.

— Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman (17%)

The number of arms that shot upward was as close to zero as it could possibly be.

— Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #1) (73%)

What if night falls?”“Night always falls, Dad.”“With you inside it, I mean.”

— Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #1) (72%)

After seeking directions, I walked out of the village to a large open pasture where I found East Carmine’s second-best Model T. This was a pickup, and far more battered than the sedan, if such a thing was possible. The bodywork had been dented and hammered out so many times that it resembled the skin of a baked potato, and the tires were homemade from scrap rubber, expertly stitched together with braided nylon. As Fandango had explained, the second T was used to neutralize ball lightning. Mounted on the flatbed was a swivel mount upon which sat a powerful crossbow, tensioned and loaded with a copper spike. Sitting on a deck chair by the side of the vehicle was Courtland. He was dressed in herringbone tweeds and had a cup of tea and a plate of biscuits on a small table. Just a little way away, a Grey was staring toward the Western Hills through a pair of binoculars

— Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #1) (64%)