Why were you lurking under our window?"
"Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?"
"Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice.
His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.
"Listening to the news! Again?"
"Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

J.K. Rowling

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You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

It's really funny.

Brandon Sanderson

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If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

Robin McKinley

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Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.

Shannon Hale

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Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Cassandra Clare

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Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself - he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve. "Look. Jammies."
"Jace," Clary said, "this is important."
"Don't tell me," he said. "You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge," he said as an afterthought. "I hear he'll do anything for a -"
"JACE!" she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream. "JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?

Cassandra Clare

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Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

P.G. Wodehouse

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I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.

Cassandra Clare

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

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It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

Cassandra Clare

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