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"[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done.""
"Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity."
"For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightaway forgetteth what manner of man he was."
"The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny."
"There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke."
"Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses."
"The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]"
"excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous"
"Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day."
"The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar."
"It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant."
"I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet."
"I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards."
"Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry."
"People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs."
""I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. "I'll show him," I said, waving an arm. "I'll sneak in. I'll steal his freaking glasses and mail them back to him in a freaking birthday card!""
"Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy." His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. "You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?"
"Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive."
"You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child."
"This was a dream. A very bad, bad dream, brought on by liver poisoning from too many gin and tonics. Here it was, a deal with the devil. At what price my soul? He watched me expectantly and threateningly all at the same time. If I said no, I knew what would happen. Save the glass, waitress, I’m drinking from the bottle! Happy hour, with my neck on tap. If I said yes, I’d be agreeing to a partnership with pure evil."
