Oz: I’m gonna ask you to go out with me tomorrow night. And I’m kinda nervous about it, actually. It’s interesting.
Willow: Oh. Well, if it helps at all, I’m gonna say yes.
Oz: Yeah, it helps. It-it creates a comfort zone. Do you wanna go out with me tomorrow night?
Willow: Oh! I can’t!
Oz: Well, see, I like that you’re unpredictable.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 13 – “Surprise”
Now and then Jack’s big hunter brought his ears to bear; this was a recent purchase, a strongly-built bay, quite up to Jack’s sixteen stone. But it did not much care for hunting, and then like so many geldings it spent much of its time mourning for its lost stones: a discontented horse. If the moods that succeeded one another in its head had taken the form of words they would have run, ‘Too heavy — sits too far forward when we go over a fence — have carried him far enough for one day — shall have him off presently, see if I don’t. I smell a mare! A mare! Oh!’ Its flaring nostrils quivered, and it stamped.
Post Captain – Patrick O’Brian
Quark: A-ha, I knew it! When I saw the two of you slip out, I said to myself, that no-good, misanthropic, cantankerous changeling is trying to sneak off the station without anyone noticing.
Odo: That was the idea.
Quark: Well, it’s not gonna happen, is it?
Odo: Apparently not.
Quark: So – now that I’m here… is there something you want to say to me?
Odo: Such as?
Quark: Such as… ‘Goodbye. You certainly were a worthy adversary.’ Or maybe something with the words ‘mutual respect’ in it.
Odo: No.
Quark: No? What do you mean, no?
Odo: I mean, no. I have nothing I want to say to you.
Quark: You telling me that after all these years, after all we’ve been through, you’re not even gonna say goodbye to me?
Odo: That’s right. Nerys, I’ll be on the runabout.
Kira Nerys: Don’t take it hard, Quark.
Quark: Hard? What’re you talking about? That man loves me! Couldn’t you see? It was written all over his back.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 25 – “What You Leave Behind”
“That’s when they decided there was only one way to stop me, I suppose, and they went for Gran.”
“They what?” said Harry, Ron, and Hermione together.
“Yeah,” said Neville, panting a little now, because the passage was climbing so steeply, “well, you can see their thinking. It had worked really well, kidnapping kids to force their relatives to behave, I s’pose it was only a matter of time before they did it the other way around. Thing was,” he faced them, and Harry was astonished to see that he was grinning, “they bit off a bit more than they could chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably thought they didn’t need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway,” Neville laughed, “Dawlish is still in St Mungo’s and Gran’s on the run. She sent me a letter,” he clapped a hand to the breast pocket of his robes, “telling me she was proud of me, that I’m my parents’ son, and to keep it up.”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
The Love Pirate 