Lørdagslisten - nr. 3

15 favorittsitater - ingen særlig seriøse. Bonuspoeng for å gjette hvilke bøker de kommer fra =) Den som har flest rette blir en dagsvinner i mitt quizopplegg, og er et steg nærmere å vinne en valgfri pocketbok.

1. "Og den som anlegger en flytende bro over Europas største elv, vil vel også kunne lykkes med å gjemme en dverg inne i et møbel?"

2. "If my life could be contained in a word it would be this one: accidents. Not only do I share in a notorious family history of calamity and accident, not only was I involved in a life-altering accident at age seven, not only would I be involved in a few more accidents in my time, I actually was an accident; as you might have imagined, my birth was not a planned one."

3. "Og da (elg)kalven dukket opp igjen kort etter, hadde jeg ikke mer å gi. Jeg kapitulerte. I natt sov vi sammen inne i teltet. Kalven bidro med overraskende mye varme. Jeg brukte den som hodepute store deler av natten, og da jeg våknet i dag, ble vi liggende og se på hverandre på en nær og intim måte som jeg sjelden har opplevd med mennesker. Jeg tror ikke jeg engang har opplevd det med min kone. Selv ikke i starten av forholdet. Det var nesten i meste laget."

4. "Han var vår Sauron, vår Arawn, vår Darkseid, vår Evige Diktator, en så besynderlig, så pervers og så fryktelig person at ikke en gang en science fiction-forfatter kunne ha funnet ham opp."

5. "You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman."

6. "The gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it. Even my best mate, Marvin, knows it, and he's more useless than the gunman. The worst part about the whole thing is that Marv's car is standing outside in a fifteen-minute parking zone. We're all facedown on the floor, and the car's only got a few minutes left on it."

7. "There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind."

8. "I don't know, apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all."

9. "In my desert vocabulary I tried to find some words of condolence and apology, but all I managed to do was massacre her parents and rape her sister. I really wasn't made for social life."

10. "Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside."

11. ”At dommedag kunne være avlyst var gode nyheter, men dette gikk slett ikke inn hos en mindre forsamling som omtrent samtidig hadde møte i et hus kalt Lysets Tempel lenger oppe i gaten, der holdt nemlig endetidsmenigheten Lysets Ord til; disse hadde med mindre hell spådd verdens undergang og Jesu komme hele fjorten ganger de siste tyve årene, men mistet slett ikke håpet, en gang ville det klaffe”

12. "Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say that it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen."

13. "All the children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though that is what they are."

14. "De første menneskene kom til Norge omtrent 12 000 år før Kristus. Denne påstanden blir tatt for god fisk av de fleste historikere. Likevel må det dreie seg om en misforståelse. Kristus kom aldri til Norge."

15. "All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."