A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

...the moron who thought love was forever.

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.

Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done.

Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.