Buffy: Uh, Hi! Willow, right?
Willow: Why? I-I mean, hi! Uh, did you want me to move?
Buffy: Why don’t we start with, ‘Hi, I’m Buffy,’ and, uh, then let’s segue directly into me asking you for a favor. It doesn’t involve moving, but it does involve hanging out with me for a while.
Willow: But aren’t you hanging out with Cordelia?
Buffy: I can’t do both?
Willow: Not legally.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Episode 1 – “Welcome to the Hellmouth”
Klaus had known for all twelve of his years that his older sister found a hand on her shoulder comforting–as long as the hand was attached to an arm, of course.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy – Lemony Snicket
Julian Bashir: A compound fracture of the right radius, two fractured ribs, torn ligaments, strained tendons, numerous contusions, bruises and scratches. What have you been doing?
Quark: You mean, what have we been doing?
[Quark and Grilka erupt into naughty laughter]
Julian Bashir: Never mind. I don’t need that particular image running around my head. I’ll just treat you.
[Worf and Dax enter.]
Julian Bashir: What happened to you two?
Worf: We, uh…
Jadzia Dax: Well, if you must know…
Julian Bashir: No! I don’t need that particular image either. In fact, I’m going to stop asking that question altogether! People can come in, I will treat them, and that will be all.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5: Episode 3 – “Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places”
“I don’t mean to be rude –” he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.
“– yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often,” Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely. “Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
Cordelia: The Bronze. It’s the only club worth going to around here. They let anybody in, but it’s still the scene. It’s in the bad part of town.
Buffy: Where’s that?
Cordelia: About a half a block from the good part of town. We don’t have a whole lot of town here.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Episode 1 – “Welcome to the Hellmouth”
Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy – Lemony Snicket
Worf: [quietly to Morn] I will apologize for this at a later time. [loudly] You are in my seat!Bartender! Bloodwine!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5: Episode 3 – “Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places”
“Judging by your look of stunned disbelief, Harry did not warn you that I was coming,” said Dumbledore pleasantly. “However, let us assume that you have invited me warmly into your house.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
Xander: Well, uh, maybe I’ll see you around… maybe at school… since we… both… go there.
Buffy: Great! It was nice to meet you.
Xander: We both go to school. Very suave. Very not pathetic.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Episode 1 – “Welcome to the Hellmouth”
There is a loud clink! noise that a sword makes when it hits another sword–or, in this case, a tooth–and whenever I hear it I am reminded of a swordfight I was forced to have with a television repairman not long ago.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill – Lemony Snicket
The Love Pirate 