But wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one’s time before the candles are extinguished on one’s birthday cake.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope – Lemony Snicket
Odo: Nerys – I realize that things may seem bleak at the moment; but there’s always hope.
Kira Nerys: When did you turn into an optimist?
Odo: Must have been that day in front of Quark’s when we kissed for the first time.
Kira Nerys: That was some kiss, wasn’t it?
Odo: Changed my life.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 1 – “Image in the Sand”
“No!” he said loudly, his voice ringing through the kitchen. “No way!”
“I told them you’d take it like this,” said Hermione with a hint of complacency.
“If you think I’m going to let six people risk their lives — !”
“— because it’s the first time for all of us,” said Ron.
“This is different, pretending to be me —”
“Well, none of us really fancy it, Harry,” said Fred earnestly. “Imagine if something went wrong and we were stuck as specky, scrawny gits forever.”
Harry did not smile.
“You can’t do it if I don’t cooperate, you need me to give you some hair.”
“Well, that’s that plan scuppered,” said George. “Obviously there’s no chance at all of us getting a bit of your hair unless you cooperate.”
“Yeah, thirteen of us against one bloke who’s not allowed to use magic; we’ve got no chance,” said Fred.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
Joyce: You get the hell away from my daughter!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 3 – “School Hard”
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope – Lemony Snicket
Jadzia Dax: Just remember when you get back: we have a lot of work to do.
Worf: I don’t consider that ‘work’.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6: Episode 26 – “Tears of the Prophets”
Willow: (about Angel) Wow, two centuries of dating. If you only had two a year, that’s still, like, four hundred dates with four hundred different… (Buffy gives her a look) Why do they call it a mace?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 3 – “School Hard”
Dudley gently released himself from his mother’s clutched and walked toward Harry, who had to repress an urge to threaten him with magic. Then Dudley held out his large, pink hand.
“Blimey, Dudley,” said Harry over Aunt Petunia’s renewed sobs, “did the dementors blow a different personality into you?”
“Dunno,” muttered Dudley. “See you, Harry.”
“Yeah . . .” said Harry, taking Dudley’s hand and shaking it. “Maybe. Take care, Big D.”
Dudley nearly smiled, then lumbered from the room. Harry heard his heavy footfalls on the graveled drive, and then a car door slammed.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled,” describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn’t hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is now dead.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope – Lemony Snicket
Julian Bashir: You were supposed to be up there exercising. I don’t see any sweat. Where are all the bruises, the… the… the broken bones, the blood?
Worf: We were talking.
Quark: For an hour and 45 minutes?
Worf: It is a private matter.
Jadzia Dax: We’re thinking about having a baby!
Worf: It *was* a private matter.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6: Episode 26 – “Tears of the Prophets”
The Love Pirate 