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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
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I’m sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what’s on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does. Appearance matters a great deal, because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill – Lemony Snicket
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Julian Bashir: Quark, where do you want this?
Quark: What is it?
Julian Bashir: A case of Alvanian brandy. A patient sent it as payment but I can’t accept it.
Quark: Nice try, Doctor, but I don’t want your charity.
Julian Bashir: Oh, it’s not charity. I find it undrinkable. So do you want it or shall I dump it?
Jadzia Dax: Quark. My sister sent me these. I thought you might want them but they’re really ugly.
Rom: They’re not as ugly as the old ones, but they’re pretty bad.
Quark: This is all very amusing, but I can’t start a bar with a case of bad brandy and a set of ugly glasses.
Benjamin Sisko: Quark!
Quark: Yes, Captain?
Benjamin Sisko: We’re doing some structural repair work on level two of the Habitat ring. We need a place to store some extra furniture for the next few months and it looks like you have the room.
Odo: Captain, where do you want me to put all this furniture?
Benjamin Sisko: We have three levels, Constable. Use them all.
Odo: Understood.
Quark: Captain, you can’t do this! Not without paying a storage fee. A minimum storage fee. Practically nothing.
Benjamin Sisko: Send me the bill.
Quark: All right. Don’t just stand there, Odo. Move it all in.
Rom: Look at them, brother. And you thought you had no assets.
Quark: Sisko, Dax, Bashir, Morn? They’re my assets?
Rom: To name a few.
Quark: I guess you’re right. I need a drink.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Episode 25 – “Body Parts”
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Let the pain stop, thought Harry. Let him kill us. . . . End it, Dumbledore. . . . Death is nothing compared to this. . . .
And I’ll see Sirius again. . . .
And as Harry’s heart filled with emotion, the creature’s coils loosened, the pain was gone, Harry was lying facedown on the floor, his glasses gone, shivering as though he lay on ice, not wood. . . .
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
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“Optimist” is a word which here refers to a person, such as Phil, who thinks hopeful and pleasant thoughts about nearly everything. For instance, if an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, “Well, this isn’t too bad. I don’t have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed,” but most of us would say something more along the lines of “Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!”
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill – Lemony Snicket
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Garak: How’s that?
Quark: Awful! Did you hear that sound of bone snapping? I don’t want that to be the last thing I hear!
Garak: It wasn’t that loud.
Quark: You don’t have these ears. Snapping vertebrae is out!
Garak: We’re running out of options, Quark. You don’t want to be vaporized because you need a body; the disrupter ruined your clothing, the knife was too savage, the nerve gas smelled bad, hanging took too long, and poison… What was was wrong with poison?
Quark: It doesn’t work! If I know the food is poisoned I won’t eat it.
Garak: For a man who wants to kill himself you’re strangely determined to live.
Quark: I’m going to die, don’t you worry about that. I just want to find the right way.
Garak: Right way?
Quark: I don’t want to see it coming. Or hear it. Or feel it or smell it. I just want to go on with my life and then… [snaps his fingers] …I’m dead!
Garak: Ah! You want to be surprised!
Quark: Exactly! I want to wake up in the Divine Treasury and have no idea how I got there.
Garak: I see. Perhaps that can be arranged.
Quark: Really?
Garak: You have my word. You’ll never know what hit you.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Episode 25 – “Body Parts”
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“Well, we’ll have to fly, won’t we?” said Luna in the closest thing to a matter-of-fact voice Harry had ever heard her use.
“Okay,” said Harry irritably, rounding on her, “first of all, ‘we’ aren’t doing anything if you’re including yourself in that, and second of all, Ron’s the only one with a broomstick that isn’t being guarded by a security troll, so –”
“I’ve got a broom!” said Ginny.
“Yeah, but you’re not coming,” said Ron angrily.
“Excuse me, but I care what happens to Sirius as much as you do!” said Ginny, her jaw set so that her resemblance to Fred and George was suddenly striking.
“You’re too –” Harry began.
“I’m three years older than you were when you fought You-Know-Who over the Sorcerer’s Stone,” she said fiercely, “and it’s because of me Malfoy’s stuck back in Umbridge’s office with giant flying bogeys attacking him –”
“Yeah, but–”
“We were all in the D.A. together, said Neville quietly. “It was all supposed to be about fighting You-Know-Who, wasn’t it? And this is the first chance we’ve had to do something real — or was that all just a game or something?”
“No — of course it wasn’t –” said Harry impatiently.
“Then we should come too,” said Neville simply. “We want to help.”
“That’s right,” said Luna, smiling happily.
Harry’s eyes met Ron’s. He knew that Ron was thinking exactly what he was: If he could have chosen any members of the D.A. in addition to himself, Ron, and Hermione to join him in the attempt to rescue Sirius, he would not have picked Ginny, Neville, or Luna.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
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It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When someone simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt to pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the news again and again. For instance, I once loved a woman, who for various reasons could not marry me. If she had simply told me in person, I would have been very sad, of course, but eventually it might have passed. However, she chose instead to write a two-hundred-page book, explaining very single detail of the bad news at great length, and instead my sadness has been of impossible depth. When the book was first brought to me, by a flock of carrier pigeons, I stayed up all night reading it, and I read it still, over and over, and it is as if my darling Beatrice is bringing me bad news every day and every night of my life.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill – Lemony Snicket
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Julian Bashir: The first thing I need to do is run a complete bio-spectral analysis on an asymptomatic individual.
Jadzia Dax: Loosely translated, that means he needs a volunteer. Great. Now, if you’ll just have a seat, the doctor will be with you in a moment. They love to keep you waiting. It makes them feel important.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Episode 24 – “The Quickening”
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“Because they got the gold from me. I gave them my Triwizard winnings last June.”
There was shocked silence, then Hermione’s teacup jogged right over the edge of the desk and smashed on the floor.
“Oh, Harry, you didn’t!” she said.
“Yes, I did,” said Harry mutinously. “And I don’t regret it either — I didn’t need the gold, and they’ll be great at a joke shop. . . .”
“But this is excellent!” said Ron, looking thrilled. “It’s all your fault, Harry — Mum can’t blame me at all! Can I tell her?”
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
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