I'm looking to beef up the site's social media presence, and I would like to use some quotes from stories on the site.
So if you remember short quotes (under 250 characters) worth sharing, I would appreciate it if you post the quote and the story name or link below.
Lazlo Zalezac's Facts of Life, from 'The Millionaire Next Door', have achieved quite a wide circulation.
AJ
Lazlo Zalezac's Facts of Life, from 'The Millionaire Next Door', have achieved quite a wide circulation.
That's the first thought I had when I started thinking about this. I will be using them. Since the bunch is too long, I'll be building a tweet for each rule.
I had one people seemed to like in Second Chance.
"I was strong right up until I was weak."
Personally, I think the best lines from Millionaire are from Dan's speech to Amanda's mother in chapter 59:
There's real love, and that is all that is important in this world of ours.
There's several other good quotes in the monologue, but they're longer, context sensitive, and give things away. A slightly darker quote from the same speech is:
They are going to be there for her when death beats on her door in the dark of night. They'll help stave off the fear and loneliness that haunts us all when our lives have run their course.
Not as great advertising as love, but helps to show that adult fiction can be serious writing too.
I've added the facts of life as 10 different tweets that are scheduled for the next few days.
I've changed the site's auto-tweeter that tweets new stories to have it tweet only minimal sex or no-sex stories.
I'm working through the suggestions and picking the ones from no-sex or minimal sex and adding them to the site's tweet scheduler.
Thank you guys for all the help. Keep the suggestions coming :)
Since you're looking for quotes for social media I doubt you want some of the many colorful and humorous quotes and expressions cmsix used in his stories. I think "Harder than times in '29" is one of his most 'famous' ones. If those types of sayings are useful I can extract a bunch from his stories with ease.
I think it's a wonderful idea to mine cmsix's output, but there really ought to be a quote involving big-titted redheads ;-)
AJ
I think it's a wonderful idea to mine cmsix's output, but there really ought to be a quote involving big-titted redheads ;-)
"Eileen, as in the redhead with the big knockers that makes me look like I'm still in grade school?"
CBCG, Book III, Chapter 55
I think allowing readers to post their favorite quotes (ex: Goodread/quotes) is an excellent idea, but I'm worried whether referencing the underaged (14-17) stories might focus unwanted attention on the site. While the cops are unlikely to target a site that isn't targeting kiddie-porn, if complaints start piling up, I expect the pressure on the site to increase substantially. The same goes for water-sport, diaper and other similar story types.
It's a good idea, but I'd stick with the safer stories to measure the response before expanding it. Luckily, I'm guessing readers will naturally gravitate to the higher rated (8 - 10) stories.
I'm worried whether referencing the underaged (14-17) stories might focus unwanted attention on the site
As someone who writes those kinds of stories, I'd strongly suggest not publicizing them via 'advertising' (term used reluctantly). While they are legal in the US, they are not legal in many places. The last thing we want is unwanted attention, though I'd be more concerned about payment processors than governments in the short term.
I guess I forgot to add that no-sex stories quotes would take precedence and over 18 contents only. Sorry for the omission.
no-sex stories quotes would take precedence and over 18 contents only.
Does this mean that GTMW's Tangent is out? (No Sex, but 13/14yo MC, same as Bec)
Garnering social media attention may well be good for raising site traffic, but this site has many stories that will definitely get the attention of the cancel culture group. The latter likely being counterproductive to the intent.
Maybe just a focus on scifistories.com and finestories.com as a test first.
Maybe just a focus on scifistories.com and finestories.com as a test first.
That seems like a good plan. Although I understand the need to get more readers "open advertising" might get more unwanted than wanted attention. Unwanted attention might prove to be very damaging so caution should be taken. Maybe trying to target "attention getters" towards those places that are likely to be supportive is the best way to start.
Maybe just a focus on scifistories.com and finestories.com as a test first.
When a story is available on those sites I will link to it. However, FS and SFS have less than 50 followers each compared to 3500 for SOL.
"I'm a damned lawyer," I shot back. "Of course I don't want fairness. I want what I want when I want it."
Jay Cantrell, chapter 14 of https://finestories.com/s/10836/lifeline (and https://storiesonline.net/s/11098/lifeline-drama-story).
"You look like you need a blowjob!"
One Thousand Apologies, 14yo Hannah to 20yo Paul.
The scene is a recreation of one that happened in real life, except then the girl was 13.
Why don't we just make up our own quotes. "Storiesonline, harder than jail time and with more lube...." Okay, maybe not...
here's a few for you. Each could be listed separately or in groups:
From The Millionaire Next Door by Lazlo Zalezac in chapter 3
The Facts Of Life
1. Life is not fair.
2. No one is exempt from death.
3. Physics rules the universe and biology rules life.
4. The universe does not care.
5. The only constant in life is change.
6. There is always a choice.
7. Wishing never makes it so.
8. A person can't exceed their limits.
9. A person is responsible for their own happiness.
10. It is impossible to change the character of another.
............
A single fact entry could read like:
Facts of Life
1. Life is not fair.
From The Millionaire Next Door by Lazlo Zalezac
A single fact entry could read like:
Facts of Life
1. Life is not fair.
From The Millionaire Next Door by Lazlo Zalezac
Exactly my thought.
fair.
2.
(of hair or complexion) light; blond.
"a pretty girl with long fair hair"
Facts of Life
1. Life is not fair.
That's hardly an original thought, though, as it's more of an already overused cliche, and was when he first wrote it. He may have a knack for cliche, fitting them to each character, but they're hardly 'inspirational' quotes.
That's hardly an original thought, though, as it's more of an already overused cliche, and was when he first wrote it. He may have a knack for cliche, fitting them to each character, but they're hardly 'inspirational' quotes.
None of Lazlo's 'Facts' can be described as original and they all have counter arguments but there's something in the way he brought them all together that captures readers' imaginations. Unfortunately that won't come across with Lazeez's plan to publish them separately.
Take 'Life is not fair'. All football appreciators will have seen the manager of a losing team stoically saying about the game-changing soft penalty awarded against them that 'these things even themselves out over the season'. It's the good old bell curve - for most people life is mostly fair. There are obvious exceptions - people with conditions that mean they have to endure a life of pain, or a slow humiliating death from dementia, lottery jackpot winners, royalty and nobility etc.
AJ
All football appreciators will have seen the manager of a losing team stoically saying about the game-changing soft penalty awarded against them that 'these things even themselves out over the season'.
I bet the Denmark manager didn't say that after England's game-changing soft penalty ;-)
AJ
of course... this too shall pass.....
I think Lazeez would appreciate if you added the author, story title, and if possible chapter number so the quote can be referenced.
This thread made me notice a quote I wrote last night.
"Youth was wonderful, every time I've had it restored was like a new honeymoon."
One of those that gets better the more you think about it.
Look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.
"Youth was wonderful, every time I've had it restored was like a new honeymoon."
One of those that gets better the more you think about it.
and that's from?
A work in progress. Sorry.
Here is one from a live story.
"I studied the scene. The view of the surface world was like a portrait framed by the rectangular opening I had cut in the protective membrane."
from Make the Cut by C. Brink
A work in progress. Sorry.
Surely the WIP has a title, as it's likely to be posted before its ... posted.
Surely the WIP has a title
I, for one, have great difficulty coming up with good titles ('Gay!'), and I often change them at the last moment.
The story concept I'm fleshing out at the moment has no title and since I'm pantsing I have no idea where it's going.
I get the impression @CB is more of a planner, but that still doesn't guarantee his work has a settled title.
AJ
I, for one, have great difficulty coming up with good titles ('Gay!'), and I often change them at the last moment.
The story concept I'm fleshing out at the moment has no title and since I'm pantsing I have no idea where it's going.
I get the impression @CB is more of a planner, but that still doesn't guarantee his work has a settled title.
I'm pretty much halfway between the two. I'm definitely a Pantzer, but I typically keep the whole story outline in my head (rather than paper). Thus, I won't know precisely how the story ends, or even how many chapters it'll be, but I'll have a general idea how the story will ultimately be resolved, just not the specifics.
Concerning titles, I generally have both a title and a completed cover before I get very far into the story. That said, I've been known to change both the title and the cover image a time or two, as I discover better ideas/images, before I finally publish it.
Even now, I'm nearly done with my first draft, and I'm seriously considering changing my protagonist's name. I'd picked "John" so he's be the typical 'everyman', rather than someone who stands out in a crowd and gets recognizes. But ... after 14 chapters, "John" gets pretty repetitive and unexciting! :(
"John" gets pretty repetitive and unexciting
"Noun. john (plural johns) (slang) A prostitute's client. quotations ▼ (slang, US) A device or place to urinate and defecate: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse."
Is self-linking okay? Admittedly there's some under-18 sex in this.
"Oh, Dana, you haven't fallen in love with a straight girl again, have you?"
Kiss the Girls
Is self-linking okay? Admittedly there's some under-18 sex in this.
Suggesting your own stories is fine. As long as the story isn't on the dark side with underage characters (rape, abuse, etc...) then it should be fine.
"Reality becomes story; story becomes legend; legend becomes myth"
From 'A Master's Ring' by ElSol
Reality becomes story; story becomes legend; legend becomes myth"
From 'A Master's Ring' by ElSol
That sounds awfully close to something in the lord of the rings. Too bad the story is incomplete. It wouldn't be wise to publicize and link to an incomplete story.
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass leaving memories that become legend, then fade to myth, and are long forgot when that Age comes again."
The opening sentence of Chapter One of each of the dozen or so Wheel of Time novels. I thought it sounded familiar!
I'm beginning to think the world would be a much better place if we culled about ninety percent of the bank property managers and a hundred percent of the city's planning commission staff. I don't think I've ever seen a bigger collection of dipshits and useless assholes in my life. There are times I have to leave my piece at home because I'm afraid I'd drill 'em to put them out of my misery."
Mayhem III or Double Trouble, Triple Teamed (ch.9) by colt45
The bit that makes it for me is the 2nd-last word
The bit that makes it for me is the 2nd-last word
Yes, it's a good one. Too bad that the whole quote is a little too long. I would have to do an image for it to work with twitter's limits of 280 characters.
Too bad that the whole quote is a little too long. ... twitter's limits of 280 characters.
Oops, my bad; I was thinking 250 words (I don't use twitter, nor text much). Trimming the middle leaves 256 characters:
I'm beginning to think the world would be a much better place if we culled the bank property managers and the city's planning commission staff... There are times I have to leave my piece at home because I'm afraid I'd drill 'em to put them out of my misery
I have a blog post
"Is PussyLips one word or should I spread them apart?"
I also have one "If your Erection Lasts Four Hours or more: CALL ME!"
"Three Things I Enjoy are Eating My Family and Not Using Commas"
Can you use any of those?
Here is something I found memorable from an author that used to be "in the community", but alas not on this site (Michael Dalton):
"... breasts that were as firm and silky smooth as the seats in an Italian sports car"
from
https://storiesonline.net/s/75846:150764/stupid-boy-chapter-1
"Sorry we only have Pepsi."
"I'll have Mountain Dew then."
I hate the taste of Pepsi. I'm a diehard Coke man, but I did like Mountain Dew. It looked like radioactive slurry and had enough caffeine to kick-start any day. I also loved it.
Also from the same chapter of the story
Cindy was still laughing. "You gave him the VD clinic number?"
The waitress smiled. "Sure. If he is that brazen I figured he needed the number."
Pepsi
Pepsi-Cola hits the spot, Twelve full ounces, that's a lot, Twice as much for a nickel too. Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you.
Pepsi-Cola hits the spot, Twelve full ounces, that's a lot, Twice as much for a nickel too. Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you.
That even predates asstr...
That even predates asstr...
That predates ARPANET. It even predates WWII.
That goes back to their first introduction of a 12 ounce bottle back in 1934.
A couple more from colt45 (I'm on a colt45 bent at the mo')
From Mayhem 4: Irish Mist
ch.3:
Of course Rachael was the star, a legend in her own mind. Everybody was entitled to her opinion. The newsies gathered around her like a flock of carrion birds and why not? Every time she opened her mouth the most insane garbage spilled out.
ch.6:
Anytime things are going too well you just know the Fuckup Fairy is right around the corner waiting to smack you in the balls with her magic wand.
ch.11:
No man is completely useless; you can always use him as a bad example.
From Synergy ch.2:
I always show deference to those in power in exactly the same proportion that they deserve, no matter how petty, stupid, pompous or elevated their bloated bureaucratic egos are
Ch.13:
A wise man once said that bravery is not the absence of fear in the face of adversity, for that is foolishness. Bravery is battling on against adversity in spite of that fear.
Von_in_your_Mind - A Time of Conquest and Challenge - Chapter 1:
"You are just so full of shit," Jed said.
"I'm an Attorney at Law. Part of the requirement of that is we need to be full of shit," I laughed outright, and then they did.
(171 characters)
"Hope is eternal and it shouldn't be judged," I replied. "Those words should be on a t-shirt!"
https://storiesonline.net/s/71259/zombies-werewolves-vampires-and-other-improbable-things
Todd d172's "Tales from the Shank" have more than enough to fill a book. The Needles and Delaney series starts with: "(It's) The kind of day you start off by dropping your fucking toothbrush in the toilet bowl you just pissed in. The best move is to go back to bed."
From a new Swarm Cycle story:
"Frankly, her acting skills are so ham-handed that they should be maple-glazed and served for Easter dinner."
and, a couple of paragraphs later:
"She might make a great movie star, but never an actress."
https://storiesonline.net/s/10279:157262/chapter-1-stupid-boy-freshman-year
My grandfather once told me getting old was not for the faint of heart. I now understood what he was talking about. I shuffled my feet into the bathroom so I could take my meds.
from
https://storiesonline.net/s/14392:180644/chapter-2-mallard-heir
The Deputy says, "I thought you agreed to let us handle any trouble that came up?"
Mort replies, "When this bunch jumped me I was too busy trying to stay alive to call you. Anyway, that agreement was about trouble up at the house, not here in town."
from
https://storiesonline.net/s/68667/grammar
When she nods he says, "Alan Friend of Nutt, Case, and Friend, assisted by David Nutt and Amanda Case." There's a lot of subdued laughter when the firm is named.
from
https://storiesonline.net/s/63852/coming-home
After all have left and the minister helps her to the truck she realises in some things there is no wrong side of the track and there's only one colour to people - red, the colour of the blood they shed together.
from
https://storiesonline.net/s/65660/always-a-marine
Sirens sounded. Car tires screeched. Car doors slammed. Running feet were heard to enter the café. The girl didn't look up until she heard a voice say, "Shit, Sheriff, it's a massacre in here. Better get the coroner over here."
many looked at the headstone to read the simple inscription on it:
Rudolph Eugene Brooks
"Johnny Reb"
Master Gunnery Sergeant
Always a Marine
Lived in service to his country and its people.
Died in service to his country and its people.
from
https://storiesonline.net/s/23317:232826/chapter-1-also-reap
says, "Time to be a farmer and to start the harvest." Mitch frowns, so he adds, "As the Bible says, 'whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' Well, it's past time those murdering racist scum got what they've sown and it's now harvest time
Spastic is a taboo word these days along-side Golliwog, nigger, etc etc…
Now if you write a story about a particular spastic Golliwog nigger ...
I'm definitely going down south after I die for making that joke.
Then I laughed quietly to myself. Her partners name was Hal? I hope he wouldn't ever tell me he "couldn't let me do that..."
Hal
HAL was the computer in a motion picture. They developed the name from I B M but moved each letter one to the right, H for I, A for B and L for M. First appearing in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I strongly suspect there's some specific background aspect of that quote that makes it funny as it doesn't mean much to me other than Hal being one of the accepted short forms for the name Henry.
I strongly suspect there's some specific background aspect of that quote
Not really, the guy 'Hal' is just a distant character in the story.
She told me about her bloke - his name was Hal, she told me, and he was an economics professor with an interest in a couple of economic modelling start-ups, which is how they'd met - Carla had put together a finance package for one of them, in itself as a favour for an old friend. Strange the way life works, we agreed, Carla resting her head on my shoulder as the evening began to catch up with her. Companionably, I put my arm round her shoulder and she began to doze. I just watched the last of the revelries, quite content for the moment.
Then I laughed quietly to myself. Her partners name was Hal? I hope he wouldn't ever tell me he "couldn't let me do that..."
It's a reference to the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey".
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)
It's a reference to the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I did assume Ernest knew that reference.
Those that don't will miss the fun in the statement.
Piper is my cat. ... sometimes she pushes my book aside and runs her head under my hand and I scratch her ears.
My cat?
Her human.
Pussy whipped.
Another Chance by Old Man with a Pen (ch.42)
I was just doing a search for epigraph quotes using GoodReads (an Amazon company) which has a terrific quote reference tool. I was searching for 'cleanup' of all things (as that's part of the chapter title). Geez! There were some real doozies in that list (much sexier than normal, including a decent sprinkling of 4-letter words and plenty of downright sexual references.
Thus, except for references to underaged porn, I don't think that Lazeez has anything to worry about concerning the quotes' content, though his main focus now is to not create active links to an under 14 sex story to prevent riling those easily rilable book-burner types.
'Alrighty, then,' thought Richard. 'Interesting information. You think the Marines would like to know they're using electronic dildos for crowd control?'
'Double Shot' by Omachuck, Chapter 8
AJ
I knew a stripper i based a story on.. she was salty and so was her daughters
She asked me "do you have a big dick?"
Her logic was i obviously had no cocaine, no game and no money, so unless I had a big pecker why was I talking to her.
I made that quote a story.
I've been working on a plausible reason to use "there is always a turd in saTURDay" which was another of her quotes. She said it because she was dealing with some asshole customer on a saturday night at a strip club
I knew a stripper i based a story on.. she was salty and so was her daughters
That's what comes from living in the salt flats!
Otherwise, I think it sounds better without the duplicate expletive: "there's always a load on Sa-turd-ay!" Though it hardly sounds like something a whore would say without getting thrown out on her ass!
All are from Todd_d172's Tales from the Shack
Half his face was a horrible insanely grinning mockery of humanity; a devil's face. A smoke filled eye, a leering smile, the skin a relief map of pain – just runnels and crevices on an angry red canvas.
Spooky's opinion of wealthy people falls somewhere between "first with their back against the wall when the revolution comes" and "emergency food supply"
He had just turned forty-eight when he was pulled out of his penthouse apartment by Danni and her father, but he died a very, very old man later that afternoon
(same)
You roll dice every day. Step off the curb into the crosswalk without looking, change lanes without thinking. Most of the time nothing happens, but sometimes, once in a while you roll snake eyes.
that's how witch–burning works. Point at someone else – someone who's made a mistake - and scream "heretic" so nobody does it to you.
(same)
integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is looking
I prefer women who can think and don't spell their names with "i"s with hearts over them. And who aren't likely to go all scissor-stabby bunny-boiling crazy.
There were no signs of evil in her, but there so rarely are. Unlike comic books, evil in real life rarely shows on the surface. Pol Pot looked like a cheerful farmer, Himmler like an accountant.
It was horrible ... I saw it!" She narrowed her eyes, then held her hand up, thumb and forefinger half an inch apart. "It was like a penis, but smaller...
Delaney's definition of food is anything slower than her that isn't actually poisonous. Well, at least not lethally poisonous
Delaney's idea of fine cuisine didn't usually have French names, unless you counted French fries.
(same)
Delaney stood up rigidly and held her hand up. "Scout's honor."
"You've never been a Girl Scout." Tara gave a slightly melancholy smile. "And that's not the salute; it's three fingers, not one. Definitely not that one."
(same)
"I know, he's like a good guy or something." She shivered in revulsion. "I didn't think those even really existed. I thought they were like unicorns or something."
(same)
Just go through Todd's Tequila Shuffle, there are any number of candidates. Unfortunately a lot of them exceed 250 characters, but try
I had to pry my hands from the edges of the seat, since I didn't know you could actually drift turn a bus. In heavy traffic.
or
I was beginning to suspect Miguel's family tree looked like a sea urchin.
or
I probably should have shut that door. I'm certain we emotionally traumatized the Chihuahua, he lost his voice from howling about two hours later.
that's how witch–burning works. Point at someone else – someone who's made a mistake - and scream "heretic" so nobody does it to you.
Next SOL author challenge: write a story using SOL author epigraphs for each chapter. Just see whether you can weave a sensible plot with all those disparate elements!
"Life is full of firsts. Enjoy the feeling each time you experience one, because each of them will become a memory," she told me."
Excerpt From
Charlie's Angels
JRyter
"Why, we could spend hours and hours talking about our benevolent government, but I'd rather talk about honest poker players and virginal hookers if you don't mind," I said."
From cmsix's story "Depression" chapter 7.
I was just thinking about this and it popped into my head.
"Sir, I'm thinking it's a bad idea to piss off a Texan holding the high ground."
--Refusenik, "Island Mine"
From BarBar's Bec - Lost in the Maze universe:
Bec ch.3
That cold black hole inside me had grown. It had started where my heart used to be. Now it had grown to occupy my entire body. There was no room left for feelings. There was no room left for tears. There was only emptiness.
ch 16
Maybe a crush isn't the same as being in love. That doesn't stop your feelings from being real.
ch 17
I have a headache. ... It started round about when you learned to talk. No sign of it easing up anytime soon.
ch.18
Just because they're offering free goodies, doesn't mean you have to accept!
ch 22
My art came from somewhere dark, deep inside my brain. It bubbled inside me, waiting to burst out. I couldn't help it if it made people uncomfortable. Sometimes it made me uncomfortable.
ch 23
They existed in my life like huge potholes in the road of my life that I had to keep steering around. You don't hate potholes, you just work out how to avoid running into them.
c23 again, and somewhat topical
throughout the last century, while some structures have failed as a result of a single incident, by far the majority have failed due to a combination of several factors.
c29
I sat there and watched in amazement as tears trickled silently down her cheeks and dissolved her iron face.
c 32
Is it too late to send our girls back to where we got them from? I'm sure the packaging didn't warn us that they would turn into teenagers.
ch 33
I realized just then that I had just said exactly what Mum would have said, exactly how she would have said it. Oh God! I'm turning into my mother!
ch 34
I treated that comment with the ignore that it deserved.
ch 39
they hadn't chosen quiche for lunch – they had some fried thing that was vaguely fish shaped and might have once been in the same room as a fish.
Bec2 will start in a new post.
Bec 2-Thanksgiving
Many/most of the good quotes are far too long
Ch 4
I don't want to spend time with old people. The only thing old people do is whine about which part of their bodies hurts the most.
ch 6
you will listen to your sisters' advice when it comes to your love life for the simple reason that they are not suffering from testosterone poisoning like you are.
Ch 11
They were standing side-by-side, the wounded veteran and the teen waif. They had so little in common, but they were standing there together, united by their mutual love of their country.
Ch 14
It's true that Leroy was being a typical guy. Blaming himself for something that wasn't his fault but completely oblivious when he did do something wrong.
...on to Bec 3...
Bec3: It Ain't Over Til It's Over
Ch.3 (I'm sure I missed others, being too wrapped up in the story)
A single second would stretch out long enough to see the birth and death of stars, while the minute that contained it would flick past in a heartbeat.
"An error has occurred. Please go back to sleep and try waking up again."
Then the raft we were floating on bumped into a purple whale wearing a bowler hat and I realized that I wasn't as wide awake as I'd thought.
Ch.7
My clothing is like my bullet-proof armor that I wear to protect me from the world and without it I was defenseless.
"All this nekkidity ain't natural," I drawled – trying to sound relaxed. "The way I figure it – if we was meant to be nekkid, we woulda got borned that way."
Ch.8
On the outside their feet would've been waving in the air like a ring of Nike shrubs laden with small but ripened fruit.
Cn.9
It's scary that you can recognize who prepared a ransom note by the style. It suggests you've all made far too many of them.
Ch.20
All the best learning is difficult. It's challenging, uncomfortable and scary.
Ch 22
I may as well have asked a flower not to bloom. I may as well have asked a cat not to purr.
That boob fairy better find me soon or I'm going to hunt her down and pin her to the wall with her own magic wand.
Ch.23:
Oh man! I'm betting you want to beat the crap out of the little shit! Don't hurt him too bad, okay? We can't afford the hospital bills.
Ch.27
maybe I'm a part of several overlapping tribes, each with its own purpose, each with its own chieftain. This room contained one of my tribes. I wondered who was the chieftain of this tribe
"This is a hug. It doesn't cost anything. You can hug anybody. You can hug your friends. You can hug your family – anyone in your family. And nobody will think you're strange for doing it."
"A hug isn't sex," she recited. "It doesn't cost anything. You can't get pregnant from a hug. You can't catch any diseases. You won't be grounded, or belted, or sent off to a boarding school for hugging someone."
End of Bec 3, again I'm sure I missed some good quotes and many were too long. On to Bec 4
That's more of an answer than I was expecting from someone in your profession.
Ch.8
Every moment of the day I'm reminded about what I did to myself. I turned myself into a walking skeleton. What a loser.
I tried to remember the last time I hadn't wanted to die. Then I started to feel like I was glad I didn't die and that was a new feeling.
Ch.15
when a teenager says they're fine, often they really mean the acronym F.I.N.E., Freaked, Insecure, Neurotic, Emotional.
Ch.18
I'm differently brained. It makes things difficult for me sometimes.
It was like a tiny fragment of a memory came out of nowhere and slammed into the side of my head.
It really hurt.
Ch.20
For most people I know, the only time they're nice to you is when they want something from you.
Ch.24
I'm not ready to be old yet but my body is starting to betray me.
Ch.27
You just want me to jump through some hoops [first]. I'm not a circus act. I don't like jumping through hoops.
In all the children's books and films and whatever, there's always the good guys and the bad guys. The good guys are always really good and the bad guys are really evil. It isn't like that in the real world
Ch.29
There is no try. There is only do. Be the rock.
Ch 34
I think you spend too much time around crazy people. Some of the crazy has rubbed off.
You can't catch any diseases.
Maybe Covid 19? It is difficult to hug and social distance at the same time.
You can't catch any diseases.
Maybe Covid 19? It is difficult to hug and social distance at the same time.
In my defense, this was written in 5 BC (5 years Before Covid)
In Bec 4 ch. 32 you do write
we talked about the flu epidemic and how easy it is for diseases to spread today like the bird flu virus and how bad it would be if a serious epidemic started.
It is difficult to hug and social distance at the same time.
That's when you use 'zen hugs.'
Don't they play in the Dutch Eredivisie? ;-)
They could. I first came across them in Anne McCafferty's Brain and Brawn stories.
They could. I first came across them in Anne McCafferty's Brain and Brawn stories.
My favorite book in that series is The Ship that Searched. which is one that mentions 'Zen Hugs'. I mention that book in a story that I am in the process of writing at this time.
'Zen Hugs'.
"TOP DEFINITION
zen hugs
"Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't." ~ Anne McCaffrey & Mercedes Lackey, The Ship Who Searched"
The guy who searched the internet. I refuse to be defeated because I need to keep my feet.
It is difficult to hug and social distance at the same time.
If hugs had any value, the government would either tax them or ban them :-(
AJ
"When the doctor said he'd lost your heart beat, it was too much to take, and I gave him my Federal Agent stare and demanded that he go find it."
I just ran into this one in Chapter 82 (the latest chapter posted) of Tom Frost's Too Much Love
"A good party is eighty percent people, ten percent location, and ten percent alcohol by volume."
short quotes (under 250 characters) worth sharing
"Because you know lots of boys in Boston. You'd make a great co-conspirator. And, in return, I'd bet the sex ratio is better at B.U. than at MIT."
"The only college in known space with a worse sex ratio is the College of Cardinals."
From RTFM by Uther Pendragon.
https://finestories.com/library/storyInfo.php?id=11095
Tripwire - (A Mountain Man Story) by UtIdArWa
Chapter 7
"Just remember son, If, in you're ever in an argument with your lady, and you find that you are correct. Apologize IMMEDIATELY."
A good story title is "winter of discount tent". Read it recently, and the title sticks.
A good story title is "winter of discount tent". Read it recently, and the title sticks.
Now Is the Winter of Our Discount Tent by Stultus.
When I sat up, she looked over at me and smiled. I swear, If she and Sally ever did that at the same time they'd put the sun out of business. As it was, I thought I'd see spots for a week...
Roadbug Recovery of a Hero (chapter 19)
ETA: A no-sex story finished in 2011. Could do with some editing, for example frequent instances of "your" that should be "you're".
Variation on a Theme, Book 1 by Grey Wolf
Ch.8
Sometimes guys screw up trying to do too much to keep a girl happy
Ch.10
"You're a teenager. You're supposed to do dumb things. I don't want you to, but that is part of being a teenager."
If you're never on time, you're making your schedule too tight.
Ch.11
life could be short and if you don't at least try to reach what you want, you'll just let it stay out of reach.
I'd have to be an idiot to do that — but there are a lot of idiots.
Ch.14
if a guy could be curious and want to explore, why couldn't a girl? The whole stud/slut dichotomy made no sense to me. How could one be praiseworthy and the other reprehensible? You couldn't even have one without the other.
Ch.20
"God must love idiots. He made so damn many of them!"
Ch.23
"I was behaving. Mis- is a form of behaving."
Ch.43
I can squint and go, 'OK, I might see why a girl thinks he's hot, because he looks like this other guy, who girls think is hot.' But that's not attraction, it's analysis.
Ch.46
...business friends are a good thing when you need help. For every ten you make you might only need one, but if you haven't made those ten, where's the one when you need it?
Ch.52
I love you, and I'll love you forever. But I want to like you, too.
Ch.59
All the potential in the world is meaningless if it just stays buried
Ch.72
"I think you may be the only fifteen-year-old boy who's managing his broken heart by drowning it in libraries and lesbians."
Ch.83
"Wisconsin. Smell our dairy air!"
She eyed the scone she'd bought. It held its place defiantly, daring her to take a bite. Is it really food? she wondered. Or is it merely Styrofoam with flavor?
—Nothing Gets Through, PennLady
Waylon sighed, he didn't know why he was being so reluctant. If you couldn't trust a group of alien super intelligences living in your skull, who could you trust?
—Island Mine, Refusenik
it was a race between the water coming in and the water being bailed out, and the water was winning the race.
Vikings, Rlfj
Lazlo Zalezac's Service Society
Pt.I,Ch.2 (Part 1 chapter 2)
He pulled up at one of the pumps and got out of his car. He ran a credit card through the machine and then started filling the tank of his car ... he muttered, "I went to college so that I wouldn't have to work at a gas station."
Pt.I,Ch.9
A job was meant to earn a living. It was not supposed to become a person's entire life.
Pt.I,Ch.15
"When did engineering change from fixing problems, to covering asses?"
Pt.I,Ch.20
He knew that he'd probably get a life sentence for kicking a dog. You could kill a person and get ten years in prison; but harm an animal, and God help you.
PtII.Ch.6
He went to college and makes fucking big bucks. Me, I'm stuck fucking for bucks,
PtII.Ch.14
"My daddy used to say that a man marries a woman hoping that she won't change while a woman marries a man hoping that he will change. My mom used to say that a man wants to change the world, while a woman wants it to stay the same.
"Men are disappointed when their wives change, and women are disappointed that their husbands don't change."
You know that he's heard a thousand times that size doesn't matter, but he knows that's a lie. Size does matter. It matters most to the man who is small.
PtII.Ch.17
People trust that an engineer has done his job whenever they step in an elevator, sit in a car, fly on a plane, or ride a damned bicycle. Their lives depend upon it.
PtII.Ch.17
I swear that lawyer slunk out of the courtroom looking like the judge had killed his dog, and set fire to his cat.
PtIII.Ch.1
The advances of the past and the advances of the present are not as far removed from one another, as our modern hubris would have us think.
Be happy you have a job. Click it or ticket. Be nice or I'll sue. A whip does not have to be made of leather to cause misery.
PtIII.Ch.4
business isn't about making the deal. It's about delivering on the deal, so you get paid
PtIII.Ch.6
"You'll spend more time talking to a wife, than having sex with her. It's important to be able to talk to her."
His personal opinion was, that bottled water was one of the greatest crimes against the American public ever perpetrated by marketing folks. Half the time the water was tap water, despite misleading product names.
PtIII.Ch.9
A lot of people have forgotten what citizenship means. They think it's all about what the country owes them. It isn't
PtIII.Ch.23
His intelligence in solving engineering problems didn't translate too well into solving matters of the heart.
Lazlo Zalesac - Service Society, Chapter 23.
"I think hello is one of the most important words in the English language. It is more important than please and thank you. You see, 'hello' says that I see you, and I acknowledge your existence.
"This is a wonderful place to wake up at. The floors are not cold, and there is a lot of hot water. We took a long shower and didn't even run out of hot water."
At least some people knew what their priorities were.
Dual Writer: Steve And Chuck- Changes and Life Adjustments chpt 22
The Richard Jackson Saga by Banadin
Ch.24
I wondered if I would ever be issued a handbook on life, it sure would help.
Ch.37
I didn't act on my first impulse. Bill did and now he is in a mess. Taking that together with Mum's comment about hormones run amok I better watch my reaction to disappointment. The first action should always be, shut your mouth, and think it through
As usual, I'll be editing more into this post. The story's in-progress, so I'll probably move on to another story and return to this one later. Again, I skipped over some earlier quoteworty lines before hitting one I just couldn't ignore.
ETA: Abandoned as per Lazeez's advice
As usual, I'll be editing more into this post. The story's in-progress, so I'll probably move on to another story and return to this one later. Again, I skipped over some earlier quoteworty lines before hitting one I just couldn't ignore.
I wouldn't bother. I need stable stories to schedule tweets of. The author is too unpredictable and may not leave the story on the site long enough after it's finished posting.
In the Dizyntk Imperium Universe stories quotable lines are a bit thin on the ground, but in Ariarisha and Lilavasi
just because she was blind did not mean that she could not do something.
You Think You've Got Problems by Raven Soule
Any person who can withstand the raging turmoil of hormones called a period, and remain even partially human, deserves respect.
There is a real reason why all gods are male.
I know that guy, Justin Time. I've met him before. I hope I never stop meeting him. Never met him, you say. Sure you have, Time, Justin ... middle name Nickov. Everybody knows him.
Old Man with a Pen - A Little Adventure in Time (chapter 22)
No idea where these came from but received in an E-mail:
1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
2. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
3. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
4. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
5 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
6. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
7. To steal ideas from someone is plagiarism. To steal from many is called research.
8. In filling in an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency - notify': I put 'DOCTOR.'
9. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
10. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they look sexy.
11. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
12. A clear conscience is the sign of a bad memory.
13. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
14. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Nor is there any future in it.
15. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
16. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
17. Finally: I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder for me to find one now.
And my personal favorite:
18. I am not arguing with you, I am explaining why you are wrong.
This post would be better sent to Jack Spratt for his Jokes and Giggles (non)-story; this topic is for quotes found in the stories on the site.
somethin fishy " The Medieval Marine (in progress)
Ch.7
Tired is temporary, death is permanent
Ch.8
If you're afraid of the answer then you probably shouldn't ask the question
Death By Fucking by Andrew Wiggin. The author includes some 'quotes from pop culture' which I'll mostly avoid, except maybe for an odd one or two that I'll suitably attribute.
Ch.1, starting with the very first line
There can't be such a thing as love as first sight. That's certainly impossible, regardless of what you've heard. People are mistaking love for lust. I believe lust at first sight happens occasionally. I'm an eyewitness.
I saw a movie recently where a guy got off of the phone with a woman he had never met and said that she was 'audibly blonde'. When I talked to Deirdre on the phone I thought she was audibly fuckable.
Our company has only been in business for 55 years. Why should we know how to do our job? It was obvious we needed someone to come in to tell us what we were doing wrong.
I felt like the high school nerd looking at the head cheerleader with envious eyes, knowing that he had no chance to ever get close to that magnificent creature
I finally knew deep down that she was desirable, eminently desirable, but entirely unreachable. My entire body finally understood that. Well, all of my body understood it except one 8-inch tube of unquenchable lust.
I know that in a few weeks you'll be gone. Maybe it will assuage your ego a bit knowing that somewhere there is a young man who loves you passionately and forever. But nothing is expected of you, nothing is required or requested.
Perhaps you will consider it prudish, but I don't do one night stands. I've never had sex with a man I wasn't at least a little in love with. It's not prudery, really. I just don't enjoy sex without love.
Ch.2
I'm a management consultant. ... I sometimes (well more than sometimes) have to tell my clients how to consolidate functions in order to improve service. That's a euphemistic way of saying I tell them who to fire.
I've been on my own for years. It was my choice to be on my own. I only regret that choice every evening when I'm along in my hotel room.
I'm a businesswoman. I'm not good with my feelings. I'm good with a logical progression of ideas. But I came prepared with a business solution. Actually it was an excuse to get laid, but it sounded kind of like a business solution.
I was attracted to him because he was beautiful, smart, funny, thoughtful, and the owner of an industrial strength penis (at least it looked that way).
Starting with a line from Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me
All women love semi-rape. Maybe not all the time, but sometimes, once you've decided that you are gong to have sex with someone, it really feels right to have him just take you.
To say this was the greatest sexual experience of my life would be to denigrate it by comparing it with any other experiences I had, when no comparison is possible.
Ch.4
I know all this because my brain is a repository of totally useless information, and I remember almost everything I read. I can't help it. It's not a talent, it's a curse.
I never felt that my opinions about anything really mattered to any of them. Mostly I was window dressing, and when they wanted an opinion from me, they would tell me what it was.
Ch.5
Her whole being seemed to emanate contentedness, kind of like a warm, well-fed kitten.
A couple of NSFW ones
She brought my dick up and planted a gentle kiss on the head. It lurched up so fast I thought it was going to put her eye out.
She was on her knees, her head at my lap, but her eyes never left mine. Let me tell you, this is the best way to get a blow job. That's a stupid statement. Any way you get a blow job is the best way to get a blow job.
I didn't want to take advantage of her. I just wanted to take her.
She said, "Oh, you're finally going to let me be in charge, you male chauvinist pig?"
I shook my head. "I may be naïve, but I'm not stupid. You've been in charge since the moment you walked into my life."
Ch.7
Her lust overcame her shame. It overcame her reticence. It overcame her.
Ch.8
"Andrew, you can make tacos without meat you know."
I said, "Sure, but what's the point?"
My only requirement is high speed internet access. I can't live without high speed access.
Ch.9
you girls make $300,000 a year and I paid for dinner? This is one sexist world!"
Ch.10
He is used to his little Playboy bunnies, with their big breasts and small brains; with their desire to be with the handsome young executive of AWC. And they bore him, I can tell.
Ch.14
You, my dear, are the most perfectly adequate woman I've ever met.
What happened to the country that was once so great, so varied, so original?
I don't want to get out of bed at my hotel in the morning and not be able to tell if I'm in Georgia or Michigan. I don't want sameness.
Ch.15
I realize that a madman who diagnosis himself has a lunatic for a doctor.
He looked surprised. I know that look. It's his 'I'm surprised' look when he was really not a bit surprised.
Now they are two years old, precocious to a fault; the kind of kids you want to hug one minute and then wring their pretty little necks the next.
Ch.17
You don't know the meaning of the word discipline."
I objected. "I certainly do! It was a Word Wealth word in tenth grade. I know what it means. I'm just not very good at it."
the local politicians do good work. Most local governments I've dealt with work hard for their constituency. They do so here too. They are good people. It's state-wide and national politicians I despise, regardless of party. They are almost all whores.
Ch.18
I said, "Elle, would you be gambling?"
She smiled. "Not the way I play it."
Infinity minus anything other than infinity is still infinity. That's an equation most of the rich people in this damn country haven't mastered yet. Why don't they just pay some fucking taxes already?
he has so many chins that when he nods his head he applauds himself.
I always look at the encrypted files first. That's where the good stuff is.
I see her talking to the dogs, explaining what she is doing. They cock their heads to the side and their intelligent eyes appear to comprehend everything. They don't know dick.
And she treats me the same way, allowing me to sit there and watch.
Ch.19
We never watch the local news, since it is driven by violence and fires. Ratings dictate that it not be 'news' but 'entertainment'.
Ch.22
I never wanted this thing in the first place. I only went along with it because I'm such a pussy. And now she's laying the blame on me? With that kind of logic, no wonder I never win an argument with my wives.
She did it again! She started out with this mea culpa but now the focus of the discussion was no longer her but me. How do women do that?
Ch.25
Contracts are things written to let people know what they can do to get out of the terms of the contract.
From Tales of the eKids: E-man Loves Emmy (Incomplete and Inactive)
Ch.1
The more she kidded him, the more Eamon was attracted to her. He was used to girls falling all over him. She wasn't playing hard to get. She wasn't playing at all.
I'm not as dumb as you think I am, you know."
"Sure you are, Daddy. But I love you anyway.
His eyes were closed as once again he envisioned that small round ass walking away from him, bouncing from side to side in a tight little dance of seduction.
Not as many in this short I&I story
"Is there any Egyptian in you, Sandy?" Lyn wanted to know.
"Not that I know of, why?"
"Because you're swimming in denial."
From "Chosen Frozen II" Chapter2 by lordshipmayhem
I was well through the story before I hit a quoteworthy line I just couldn't ignore (there were a few earlier lines too)
Howard Faxon - A Thorny Gift
Anyone that cannot comprehend calculus is barely a barbarian and can't be relied upon not to shit on the carpet.
... and more, now that I've started
Why must we label things as evil? The forces of nature are not good and not evil--they simply are.
...but that's it as I started well down the story.
From Todd_d172's The Shack: an Unreasonable Man:
"He's some kind of pervert. He exposed himself to Delaney."
...Delaney broke in, nodding exaggeratedly, eyes wide in obvious mock-fear. "It's true Sheriff! He did. It was horrible ... I saw it!" She narrowed her eyes, then held her hand up, thumb and forefinger half an inch apart. "It was like a penis, but smaller..."
From Oyster 50'S "Christina":
"Cologne. My baby bought me a gift. I was going to like anything she wanted as long as it smelled slightly better than the anus of chancroid skunk."
Down From the Mountain by Gina Marie Wylie
A quote that's rather apropos for current society, albeit in a Fantasy story and referring to a monarchy
The King had been working to remedy any number of ills facing his people, his highest priority being the Magistrates who sold "justice" to the person with the fattest purse. They did not give refunds and had notably short memories.
Landing by Gina Marie Wylie
I've been on a bit of a GMW binge recently.
Right now, all it will take is one fat turd of a congress critter to put us out of business. He looks at the ISS budget, sees a couple four, five billion dollars he can spend on a gross of congress critter toilet seats instead and zip!
Human ingenuity is the true engine of advancement of our species. The naysayers produce great sound and fury, but there are people out there who just don't care if someone else says, 'This will never work!' They are going to do things with or without the help of the rest of us.
Laura Alban Hunt by Gina Marie Wylie (Incomplete and Inactive)
Ch.1
Life though, isn't about fairness; it's about what happens to you and how you deal with it.
Ch.8
"I learned that night, that I wasn't as smart as I thought I was." She laughed, obviously at herself. "Once you learn that, why all sorts of things happen.
"The most important thing I've learned, since realizing how little I knew? How important each of us is. Each in our own way."
Ch.10
You don't mind breaking the rules, so long as no one gets hurt and the result is better than you could have gotten otherwise.
Ch.12
Tell me, which is worse? Selling your vagina to some horny guy for a few minutes, or selling your ideas to other people for decades?"
Ch.13
Human emotions, I thought, are like explosives. You mess with them at your own risk. Sex? That was the part most fraught with risk.
Even with the strongest desire to help, it can be hard to keep them sheltered from the real world. They have problems with parents, with school, with lovers... ten thousand rocks in the road, ready to trip up the unwary.
Ch.18
How do you teach someone to respect others? They see it done around them; they have role models and teachers. Could you fully respect someone else's wishes and values if you didn't respect your own? I didn't think so.
Ch.22
"I want to add to peoples lives, not subtract."
Ch.23
What's bothering me isn't spending the money, it's the reasons why I want to spend the money. I'm wondering if the right way to put in a screw is with my hammer
Ch.25
There are a lot of stupid people in the world, Terri, with a lot of stupid prejudices. The only way we'll get past them is for us to look each other in the eye and see people first and color last."
cH.27
"How do you make someone swear an oath, based on their personal honor?" I asked rhetorically, "when the whole concept of honor has pretty much been replaced by self-actualization and personal aggrandizement?"
"How can I say I'm sorry, when you don't want to hear the word?"
"Deeds, not words," I told her. "Deeds can speak more words than a thousand pictures."
Ch.28
"Money isn't talk, because talk is cheap. Money is like the volume knob on a boom box. The difference between a whisper and a low-rider's throbbing beat."
A lot of the people who deny religion want you to take their word based on faith in their premises. Pretty much the same way as religious people ask you to accept their premises. Better to keep your eyes and mind open. Think for yourself."
"Understanding is something she talks about, but I think she's just read about it in a book. I don't think she practices it at all."
people are different. Different strokes for different folks isn't just a saying, it's how we all live. Too many people, though, think their way is the only way. There are all sorts of decisions we have to make on how to live our lives.
Ch.30
The worst person to lie to is yourself. I bet you have a lot of practice... but then, you've pointed out that so do I. I'm not a puppy or a kitten, but the lesson works just the same: have your nose rubbed in it, and you pay more attention.
There were two kinds of pig-headed animals in the world: pigs, for whom it came naturally, and human beings who build their own blind alleys.
Laura Alban Hunt by Gina Marie Wylie (Incomplete and Inactive)
Are quotes from incomplete stories a good advert for the site?
AJ
Fort South by Gina Marie Wylie
Not many quoteworthy lines, but Ch.9 (the very end of the story proper)
it's not death that makes us who we are, but how we live. Our legacy isn't just our deeds, it's our children as well. Particularly our children.
Will You Do This for Me? by Gina Marie Wylie
Ch.1
Murphy tends to visit desperate enterprises with greater than usual force. I knew just how quickly Murphy could get up to his mischief -- and just how large that mischief could be.
Just before I re-boarded the bus I asked the fellow what the weather ahead was like. He shrugged. "The Lord will provide. Right now it looks like he's going to provide a lot of snow."
Ch.2
Did God create women and men capable of experiencing sexual pleasure with all the joys and promises that comes with it, and then expect them not to?
"God is all-knowing and all-seeing. Why would he need to test us, when he already knows the answers?"
Were we supposed to ignore all religious beliefs if some of their miracles looked even slightly implausible? That would invalidate a lot of tenets of a lot of religions; I didn't think so.
Ch.6
"Christ, on the cross, was of uncertain faith. It's not at all about where you start your journey, and while some of the turns you take on your journey might not be best, it's the destination that is important."
Belief in God won't bring you to God if your actions don't merit it. Actions alone are what count. You don't need to accept God to know right from wrong; to know morality from license. Fairness isn't a relative concept - you are or you're not.
if 9 out of 10 Asians say that family is the most important factor in their lives, and 9 out of 10 blacks say racism is the most important factor of their lives, are we not allowed to note a difference?
Ch.7
One of the easiest mistakes to make, particularly when you are young and less experienced, is to assume what you perceive is 'truth.' Thus, we can accept what we see, disbelieve it -- or we can take the wisest course and question it.
Ch.9
An agnostic knows he's in trouble when he turns to prayer.
As long as you have free will, nothing is certain.
Ch.10
There is good and evil, and man can, with his free will, choose the right path or the wrong path. What God really wants us to do, is find the right path.
We can't go back and change our mistakes -- we have to learn from them. And if we can better ourselves, learn to build a better, brighter tomorrow, then that is what God truly desires from us.
Ch.11
Once I showed them the forest, they finally understand why there are so many trees.
"Sure. I think I'm turning into one of those Tibetan monks who've learned to ignore the cold."
"Do me a favor -- imitate a surfer dude, taking in the rays!"
Laura Alban Hunt by Gina Marie Wylie
Remember that Lazeez stated that he prefers quotes from no-sex stories since is for social media.
Oops, I'd forgotten that. I'll carry on with WYDTFM (above) as it's minimal sex
Edit: On second thoughts, since it references such controversial subjects (religion and underage sex), I'll collect but not post quotes unless Lazeez says to do so before I've finished the story
Third thoughts - I'll post them anyway, Lazeez can then decide.
"I found out that the chicken shit was to be mixed into the soil around each of the grapevine bases. That was a tough job, as you had to dig up the ground, put some chicken manure on the top, then mix it into the soil. You don't want to put too much, or it will burn the plant. After 20 years in the Army, I was used to chicken shit, so this wasn't that big an adjustment."
Dual Writer's Recluse and Ghost, chapter 4.
"I found out that the chicken shit was to be mixed into the soil around each of the grapevine bases. That was a tough job, as you had to dig up the ground, put some chicken manure on the top, then mix it into the soil. You don't want to put too much, or it will burn the plant. After 20 years in the Army, I was used to chicken shit, so this wasn't that big an adjustment."
This needs a little shortening to get within the 250 chars limit.
From the OP:
So if you remember short quotes (under 250 characters) worth sharing, I would appreciate it if you post the quote and the story name or link below.
The first day of school goes as such days do: in utter chaos with some periods of mere mayhem while everyone gets sorted out and settled in.
from chapter 07 of Mack
https://storiesonline.net/s/11363/mack-coming-of-age-story
We kissed for an instant that lasted a lifetime. No more, no less.
https://storiesonline.net/s/21883:224377/chapter-8-chasing-the-last-road-to-stockholm
I answered, "Well, the suspects will be taken to the station, where they'll be photographed, hoof-printed, and then questioned by detectives. The Matucket Police Department will be looking for the ringleader. Goat-related crime won't be tolerated in Matucket!"
https://storiesonline.net/s/11339:172062/chapter-61-the-grim-reaper
Goat-related crime
Someone got his goat.
"
Definition of get someone's goat - Merriam-Websterhttps://www.merriam-webster.com ' dictionary '
Definition of get someone's goat. informal. : to upset or irritate someone The way she's always correcting other people really gets my goat!"
Young goats are called kids, so maybe I am kidding.
A goat that is kidding is about to, in the process of, or has just given birth.
If you're kidding, you must be a nanny goat or a trans billy goat ;-)
AJ
Go at kidding.
I am not a Nan from NY. I am not trans, I have always been male and plan to remain male, although at 76 it mostly matters when I Republican (Go P). I get some bills but I am not a Billy.
"William Windsor (goat)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Billy the goat"
William Windsor I
White goat wearing metal headdress and green coat, stands beside soldier in red ceremonial uniform, and a white helmet; a child in a push-chair is pointing at the goat
Nickname(s) Billy
Born 2000 (20–21 years old)
Whipsnade Zoo
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service 2001–2009
Rank Lance corporal
Service number 25232301
Unit 1st Battalion, the Royal Welsh
Retirement Whipsnade Zoo
William "Billy" Windsor I is a cashmere goat who served as a lance corporal in the 1st Battalion, the Royal Welsh, an infantry battalion of the British Army.[1] He served as a lance corporal from 2001 until 2009, except for a three-month period in 2006 when he was demoted to fusilier, after inappropriate behaviour during the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations while deployed on active duty with the battalion on Cyprus. He retired to Whipsnade Zoo in May 2009.
His young replacement is known as William Windsor II.
Contents
1 History
2 William Windsor I
2.1 Temporary demotion
2.2 Retirement
3 William Windsor II
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History
The tradition of having goats in the military originated in 1775,[2] when a wild goat walked onto the battlefield in Boston[2] during the American Revolutionary War and led the Welsh regimental colours at the end of the Battle of Bunker Hill.[3][4] Another Welsh military goat, Taffy IV, served in the First World War. Taffy, of 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment, is officially recorded as "The Regimental Goat". He embarked for the war on 13 August 1914 and saw action in the Retreat from Mons, the First Battle of Ypres (including the Battle of Gheluvelt) and the Battles of Festubert and Givenchy, before dying on 20 January 1915. He was posthumously awarded the 1914 Star, British War Medal and the Victory Medal.[5]
The royal goat herd was originally obtained from Mohammad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia from 1834 to 1848,[6] when he presented them to Queen Victoria as a gift in 1837 upon her accession to the throne.[7]
The herd thrived on Llandudno's Great Orme; by 2001 they reached a population of 250, and were in danger of running out of food.[8] Following complaints about goats wandering into people's gardens, the council rejected proposals for a cull, deciding to use a combination of rehoming and birth control.[9] RSPCA marksmen tranquillised nannies and inserted contraceptive progesterone implants to control the numbers of the genetically unique breed.[8][9] By 2007, 85 goats had been relocated to areas including Kent, Yorkshire, the Brecon Beacons and Somerset,[9] but further efforts were interrupted by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.[9]
William Windsor I
Billy, a Kashmir goat,[10] is descended from the same royal bloodline as the original herd,[11] but was not selected from the wild population; he was born in Whipsnade Zoo.[12] He was presented to the regiment by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.[13] The tradition is not new: since 1844, the British monarchy has presented an unbroken series of Kashmir goats to the Royal Welch Fusiliers from the Crown's own royal herd.[7]
Billy—Army number 25232301[10]—is "not a mascot, but a ranking member of the regiment", according to the BBC.[1] Since joining in 2001,[10] he has performed duties overseas, and has paraded before royalty.[1] His primary duty was to march at the head of the battalion on all ceremonial duties.[1] He was present for every parade in which the regiment participated.[1] Billy's full-time handler was Lance Corporal Ryan Arthur, who carried the title of "Goat Major".[1][14]
sepia-tone, a goat with a head-dress between two soldiers
Another regimental goat: Taffy IV, of the 2nd Battalion of the Welsh Regiment, was on active duty in France during World War I, participating in the Retreat from Mons, the First Battle of Ypres and other famous battles. He was awarded the 1914 Star.[15]
Temporary demotion
On 16 June 2006,[13] a parade was held to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday, at the Episkopi base near Limassol, Cyprus on the Mediterranean island's south coast.[10] Invited dignitaries included the ambassadors of Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden and the Argentine commander of United Nations' forces on Cyprus.[16]
The deployment to Cyprus with the 1st Battalion was Billy's first overseas posting, and despite being ordered to keep in line, he refused to obey.[13] He failed to keep in step,[16] and tried to headbutt a drummer.[17] The goat major, Lance Corporal Dai Davies, 22, from Neath, South Wales, was unable to keep him under control.[16]
Billy was charged with "unacceptable behaviour",[10] "lack of decorum" and "disobeying a direct order",[16] and had to appear before his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Huw James.[10][18] Following a disciplinary hearing, he was demoted to fusilier.[1][16] The change meant that other fusiliers in the regiment no longer had to stand to attention when Billy walked past, as they had to when he was a lance corporal.[13]
A Canadian animal rights group protested to the British Army, stating that he was merely "acting the goat", and should be reinstated.[10] Three months later, on 20 September at the same parade ground,[10] Billy regained his rank during the Alma Day parade which celebrates the Royal Welsh victory in the Crimean War.[10] Captain Simon Clarke said, "Billy performed exceptionally well, he has had all summer to reflect on his behaviour at the Queen's birthday and clearly earned the rank he deserves".[10]
Billy received his promotion from the colonel of the Royal Welsh Regiment, Brigadier Roderick Porter.[10] As a result of regaining his rank, he also regained his membership of the corporals' mess.[10]
Billy is not the first goat in the army to have troubles. At one time a royal goat was "prostituted" by being offered for stud services by the regiment's serving goat major to a Wrexham goat breeder.[7] First charged with lèse majesté,[19] the goat major was ultimately court-martialled under the lesser charge of "disrespect to an officer" and reduced in rank.[7] The goat major claimed he did it out of compassion for the goat, but this failed to impress the court.[7] Another royal fusilier goat earned the nickname "the rebel", after he butted a colonel while he was stooped over fixing his uniform's trouser-strap.[20] The incident was described as a "disgraceful act of insubordination."[20]
Retirement
On 20 May 2009, following 8 years of distinguished service,[14] Billy retired due to his age.[1] Soldiers from the battalion lined the route from his pen to the trailer as he left the camp for the last time, in ceremonial dress that included a silver headdress which was a gift from the queen in 1955.[1] Billy was taken to Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire,[1] where keepers say he had an easy life at the Children's Farm.[21]
William Windsor II
In order to replace Billy, thirty members of 1st Battalion set off to Great Orme in Llandudno on 15 June 2009 at 03:00, hoping to catch the feral goats in a docile state.[22][23] A team led by Lieutenant-Colonel Nick Lock (Commanding Officer) included the goat major and several veterinarians.[24] Army spokesman Gavin O'Connor said, "We are looking for a goat which is calm under pressure and a team player."[24] During the selection of a replacement goat, the battalion helped to start an alternative vaccine method of birth control among the herd, since hormone implants that were previously employed to control numbers are no longer available.[25]
With some difficulty, a five-month-old was chosen, and assigned army number 25142301—which represents regiment number 2514, 23rd Regiment of Foot (the original name of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers), and 01 denoting the 1st Battalion.[23] The new goat will also be called William Windsor, beginning as a fusilier while being trained for military life.[22] He will receive a ration of two cigarettes per day, which he eats, but will not be permitted Guinness until he is older.[22]"
Quote from "Climbing the Ladder - The First Rung"
by Michael Loucks Chapter 19
""Looks like we actually pulled off the impossible," I said.
"You and I might think so, but I'll bet you a month's salary that there will be no end of bitching and whining tomorrow."
"How is that different from normal?" I asked with a grin."
"She got what she wanted, but not so sure she wanted what she got."
My Little Ventrue by Novus Animus, ch 14.
"It was winter out on the plains many years ago. A small bird had been caught outside and fallen to the ground almost frozen. A farmer came by. He saw the bird and took pity on it. Looking around, he saw some fresh, steaming manure. He took the bird in his hand and pushed the bird into the pile up to its neck. The manure was hot and did the trick. The bird revived and began to chirp. A wolf heard the bird, pulled it from the manure, and ate it.
"Now, there are three morals to this story. First, the one who puts you in it is not always your enemy. Second, the one who gets you out of it isn't always your friend. Third, when you're in it up to your neck, keep your mouth shut!"
Authors " radio_guy " Brittany and Chad " Chapter 5
Thanks, but too long. No more than 200 characters.
Tweets allow 280 characters. There needs to be room for the link, the title, the author name, etc...
Lazlo Zalezac's Hunter, either here or on SciFiStories
Ch.2:
Remember that the majority of people are good honest folks, who believe in, and support the American way.
"I know that, Captain. It's just that at times I find it a little difficult getting beyond the vocal rabble that hate this country"
Ch.3
I have nothing against people coming to America to create a better life for themselves. I just wish they would start eating our food, talking our language, and socializing with us to integrate into our society.
Ch.4
I really doubt that the founding fathers intended us to allow foreign powers to set up shop in this country for the purposes of making war against it,
There are a bunch of people who would like us to become a socialist country. I keep hearing about how the government owes the people this or that. When did government become a money tit for the lazy?
Ch.6
In the corner, he had a very large gun safe. It was already filled with enough weapons and ammunition to hold off a small attacking army. Karen had not been happy to see the gun safe arrive, but she would have been even less happy to see it leave.
Ch.9
There should have been a way to wake up the 'Peace At Any Price' groups that grabbed control of this country. There are bad people here and we need to find them.
Ch.23
He looked around and asked, "Where's the nearest restroom? ... I better find one soon. When my asshole relaxes, I'm going to shit a brick,"
Ch.38
I hate the fact that I can find no way to deal honorably with dishonorable people. I find it disgusting that in order to save what I value most that I must lower myself to their level.
Ch 40
Marines get the tough jobs that have to be done and we do them. We pay the price so that others donu2019t have to.
Ch.41
Let me tell you one thing, you don't want to walk around a field filled with cows wearing heels and a dress.
Ch.42
Talk doesn't solve problems when the bad guys don't want to talk.
Ch.45
We've been fighting this war by going after the chess pieces without ever considering the chess masters pushing them around on the board.
For got just where I read it, but
"The army marches on its stomach, but the navy floats on a sea of paper work.
"Just keep Delaney away from construction equipment and breakable things ... like buildings and bridges."
from "The Shack: the Milk Run" by Todd_d172
Another Lazlo quotes would be the Druid motto
1. If it harms none, do it
2. Protect the weak from the strong.
I'm getting things totally ready for posting, and I just found a quote from 'A True History, Book Four' that will be posted here in the near future that struck me as funny.
they didn't just screw the pooch, they fucked the whole dog pound.
I know it's not up yet, but I actually just laughed when I read it. And I'm the one WROTE it!
I know it's not up yet, but I actually just laughed when I read it. And I'm the one WROTE it!
remind me when you post that part, and I'll tweet the story link.
they didn't just screw the pooch, they fucked the whole dog pound.
Is it wise to put bestiality on social media?
Then again, if anyone complains, tell them to get knotted...
:)
Is it wise to put bestiality on social media?
Variants are on Facebook and various news commentaries ;-)
AJ
Why is it spelled best iality? Wouldn't it be beast iality? What is best about it?
Git'r back legs in them thar wellies. (a comment to Richard's post, not a quote)
From Shrink42's Banner Year, his rules for dealing with women:
Calvin Banner's Rules for Dealing with Women
1: Women tell each other everything.
2: If you have a penis, you can't win.
3: They know what you're thinking!
4: Never assume anything.
5: They can always surprise you.
...and from Ch.48:
Shame loses to hormones every time
Why is it spelled best iality? Wouldn't it be beast iality? What is best about it?
From the LKatin,"besta."
From Chapter 6 of Shaddoth's Server Change:
Yvonne's response was not repeatable in the presence of small children, farm animals, teens, nursing mothers, hardened criminals, fishwives, or goats.
Yvonne's response was not repeatable in the presence of small children, farm animals, teens, nursing mothers, hardened criminals, fishwives, or goats.
A list containing both 'small children' and 'teens' looks wrong. If I were Shaddoth, I'd replace 'teens' by 'sailors' or 'troopers' ;-)
AJ
You question the inclusion of small children and teens, but don't blink at the inclusion of goats..??
You could argue that the inclusion of both small children/teenagers and farm animals/goats (ie, goats in many countries ARE considered to be farm animals) is superfluous considering that both could be considered the same and the inclusion makes the sentence longer, less 'snappy' and it would actually gain from the removal of both farm animals and teens.
In fact, I would say that "Yvonne's response was not repeatable in the presence of small children, fishwives, hardened criminals, or goats." is a lot better.
Just my two (insert unit of fiscal denomination to suit).
Good point - they're duplicated by 'farm animals'. However some goats are very nervous and inclined to faint.
AJ
Sandy said, "I'm going to make him some shirts. Men's pants are too much trouble though."
I grinned and said, "I can always stop wearing them."
Sandy said, "Jack, you are crazy."
I had to say it. "Sanity is so-o overrated."
"Keep your pants on."
Story by Radio Guy "Aging Well"
"Once you think you've figured out a woman, wait ten minutes and you'll be in the dark again."
https://storiesonline.net/s/18980:213768/chapter-18-a-new-beginning-and-beyond
"We'll observe the eleventh and twelve commandments, 'do unto others BEFORE they do unto you'. And 'thou shalt not get caught!'"
Jody Daniel - Desert Rose chapter 7.
Words you can't take back make for the best music.
Lumpy, Playing by Ear
https://storiesonline.net/s/25377:251312/chapter-33-playing-by-ear#page-bottom
I liked the quote at the time and still do, but it always takes me three times looking at it to read it right.
Jay Cantrell, The Rise of Azkoval Ch. 72
experience is the cruelest teacher. It gives the examination first and then offers the lesson once you've failed
From Todd_d172:
They think scruples are what they use for money in Russia and morals are those paintings on walls.
Sometimes, when something isn't right, you have to hit it with a fucking hammer.
From Colin the Dogg 'Kiss My Ring': I go home to the love of my life to be bitched and whined at while eating some overcooked insipid slop. No that's not fair, she treats me like a god: she remains chaste and presents me with burnt offerings twice a week.
Island Mine by Refusenik, (nosex)
Ch.12
"Arrggh! You are such a man. ... I tell you something from my heart and all you want to do is give me answers."
"Captain Arnold, what are you thinking?"
Arnold spoke without hesitation, "Sir, I'm thinking it's a bad idea to piss off a Texan holding the high ground."
Lifeline by Jay Cantrell (No Sex)
Ch.2
Someone is going to do what you do. At least you seem halfway decent."
Tiny eyed me warily.
"I only kill those that need killin'," he said.
Snide comments were Pam's specialty. ... She would mutter under her breath just loud enough for you to hear in hope of provoking you into a fight. Sadly, it worked on me more often than it should.
Your objection is denied, for whatever grounds it was because, well, honestly, I stop listening when attorneys start whining. I do the same thing with my grandkids, so don't feel slighted.
"He said he's going to resign at the end of the month. That's too bad. I think he's a good judge. But he wants to spend time with his grandkids while they're kids and not after they get to be mouthy teenagers."
In all those teevee shows and movies, where some overacting civilian woman has the bad guy under her pistol, the cops unable to help, and then she pulls the slide back ? all that time, she didn't have a cartridge in the chamber.
The Gunny and Lenore by black_coffee, near the end of Chapter 27
Do you still want these posted? Most of the prospective quotes I spot are unsuitable because of being too long, or from a story with too high a sex content, so I'm only going to be posting them very occasionally.
ETA: Also, the ? in the quote above is actually an em-dash in the story; I don't know if the problem lies in posting to this form, or copying between computers at this end (just checked, it's the latter; this 2016 OS doesn't handle Unicode well)
If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's to expect and plan for the unexpected.
Story?
Author?
Chapter?
Links?
It is from this ste, isn't it? - or at least, from a WLPC site?
Doing it all Over by Al Steiner
- which is a 'much sex' story, so less desired for quoting on social media - even though it's an excellent story - as Lazeez prefers low sex content stories for this site promotion.
Al Steiner - Doing it all Over, Chapter 3 (after the break)
It's a pretty well travelled quote.
Saw it used in the late 90's and early 00's by plenty of PAW Fiction writers.
I think as far as SOL goes, even I used it in Tommy Gunn Book 1.
If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's to expect and plan for the unexpected.
If you can expect and plan for something then it is not unexpected.
If you can expect and plan for something then it is not unexpected.
"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."
AJ
"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."
And then there are the things we think we know which aren't so.
Education isn't showing much progress [...] because the people that need it the most appreciate it the least.
Lazlo Zalezac John Carter Book 3 chapter 2 above the fold, marked as 'Some sex' although there is some (mostly off-screen) M-M.
The worst thing people can do is rush into having children. You need to have very strong relations with your spouse before taking on that responsibility. If you don't start strong, it's very tough to strengthen it after you have children.
Chapter 18, at the end - just on 240 characters, 238 using ASCII quotes.
Lazlo Zalezac - Fighting for Family
Ch.2
Communication is a two way street. You not only have to talk; you have to listen
She stopped in front of a large lingerie store. [...] A smile crossed her face and she headed inside. There were bridges to be built and lingerie was an excellent building material.
One similar to one above:
Fantasy Lover - The Goatherd - Some Sex
Ch.12
You can only hope for the best, plan and prepare for the worst, and control the way you respond to those things you cannot control. The gods seem inclined to test us periodically. Some tests are more painful than others.
An arrogant man makes a poor noble
Benny said, "Just because there are a lot of stupid people in the world doesn't give legitimacy to their idiotic beliefs."
https://scifistories.com/s/1305:8390/chapter-50-emend-by-eclipse
Lazlo Zalezac, Emend by Eclipse, Chapter 50.
"...Surely you could do it in Word."
"Are you kidding? That's like trying to fill a cavity in your own back tooth all by yourself and without a mirror."
Lazlo Zalezac, Emend by Eclipse, Chapter 21.
https://storiesonline.net/s/18499:208774/chapter-21-emend-by-eclipse
"Supervisor 3614 was composted for missing reports and lack of result. Resume per cycle reports immediately."
From my story 'AZ Mystery' https://storiesonline.net/s/25494:262368/chapter-10-a-z-mystery#page-top
Might not be an amazing quote, but I think it's a great use of the word 'composted.'
"Alarm clocks are one of the evilest inventions of the human mind. They rank near poison gas, lawn darts, and dribble cups. Nevertheless, they are effective."
from Magician's Merger, chapter 31, by Xenophon Hendrix
"This would be a hobby, like train spotting but with fewer clothes."
from Living Two Lives - Book 10 by Gruinard
"As I drifted between waking and sleep, surrounded by so much love, my only coherent thought was, 'I need a bigger chair.'"
"I'm taking you to meet my family. It's not every day they get to meet a real, live Presbyterian."
"My family's Lutheran, actually."
"Same difference." She winked.
From Sugar by RichardGerald
"Same difference."
Real life story about something like that. The manager of my Florida staff hired a guy from South America and it was complex because of the Visa situation. On my next trip to Florida I met the guy and said something about him being from Argentina. He made a face and told me he was from Venezuela.
I said something like, "Same thing."
We didn't get off on the best foot.
No different to telling an English/Scots/Welsh or Irish person that they are Welsh/Irish/English or Scots, with the exception that the entirety of the UK and Ireland can pretty much fit into one South American country, obviously ...
the entirety of the UK and Ireland can pretty much fit into one South American country
UK and Ireland combined could also fit into the US states of Alaska, Texas, California, or Montana. In fact, they would fit into Texas twice over and into Alaska 5 times with room left over.
The American system of selecting leaders is screwy, in that the character traits which are best suited to winning elections are not the character traits best suited for being the President.
rlfj - A Fresh Start (chapter 146)
The American system of selecting leaders is screwy, in that the character traits which are best suited to winning elections are not the character traits best suited for being the President.
rlfj - A Fresh Start (chapter 146)
That problem is inherent in all political systems that rely on voting when the voting rights are extended to everybody.
When you allow leaches to vote, they're going to vote for anybody that robs those who are productive to buy the votes of unproductive masses.
For example: people on welfare shouldn't be able to vote, they'll only vote for anyone that promises them more feed at the trough.
Personally the list of groups that shouldn't be allowed to vote:
- People on government support like welfare, social security etc...
- Childless people (they have no interest of a good future, only a good present, which means they would vote for anybody who would spend our children's future on the present)
- Anybody who doesn't pay surplus tax. If you draw from the system more than you put in, your vote is suspect already.
That makes the voters pool quite small, but it will mean that better people are elected, and not charlatans that don't know more than to sell themselves to anybody who's willing to buy.
Alas, once you give the right to vote, you can never take it away, so my 'preference' would never ever be implemented unless the country collapses and then it will be hundreds of years before things reach the current stage again, if not thousands of years.
I started the day the way nature intended after a night of shooting tequila. I threw up.
from Third Time's the Charm by Xalir
Anyone else automatically correct that to: "After a night of shooting tequila, I started the day the way nature intended. I threw up."
Or is it just me...
Wes Boyd, Bullring Days One: On the Road Ch.17
When you're a young man you think you can conquer the world, but the older you get the more you have to accept your limitations.
When you're a young man you think you can conquer the world, but the older you get the more you have to accept your limitations.
I has nothing to do with accepting my limitations. If I conquer the world, I have to run it. Too fucking much work! No thanks. :)
Wes Boyd Bullring Days Two: Bradford Speedway Ch.10
I'm not going to take the responsibility for something without having the authority I need to do it the right way.
he wasn't the kind of kid who thought ahead. He wanted instant gratification, and he wanted it now.
We got a real hard push from the company about the Edsel, and the minute I laid my eyes on the first one I realized that it was a fire hydrant waiting for a dog to come by.
practical classes have fallen by the wayside in pursuit of book knowledge, with the result that the kids graduating from high school today don't know how to write a check or balance a checkbook or change the oil in their cars
pinching every penny till Lincoln farts
everything had to be done on a shoestring, but when you're doing things on a shoestring you sometimes find innovative ways to tie the ends together
Lazlo Zalezac, Thunder and Lightening (Minimal sex)
Ch.11
if you're gonna be poor then you had better start thinkin' like a poor man
If you want to stop being poor, you had better stop thinking poor.
the color of a person's skin doesn't tell you much about what's in their heart
It's a whole lot harder to build something than to take it apart
Excuses don't change things
There must be possible to find something from Lazlo's Magic. That one is just brimful of jokes and running gags. Easily the funniest thing on this site.
'Service Society' by Lazlo Zalezac (nosex)
Ch.18:
You should eat your own dog food before you start selling it to others.
If you hang with an enough mangy dogs, you're bound to pick up a few fleas
Part 2 Ch.6
I got pregnant ... then dropped out of school. He went to college and makes fucking big bucks. Me, I'm stuck fucking for bucks,
if women were in charge of the world, we'd still be living in caves. They wouldn't have ever risked what they had, for the uncertainty of something new.
Men are disappointed when their wives change, and women are disappointed that their husbands don't change.
If you can't see a problem, then you can't fix it.
Lazlo Zalezac, Jade Force of Misera series, book 1 The Rise of Jade Force
Ch.1
They think war is men in uniforms killing men in uniforms. They don't realize that war is about one state forcibly imposing its will upon another state ... usually with the intent of eliminating it.
There's nothing humane about war. It's an ugly, brutal, violent act that should sicken any sane man. Pretending that war is humane, is hypocrisy of the worst kind.
With a good army you can always get a country. With a country, you can't always get a good army.
There are some who would say the world is civilized. I say that the world is insane. It must be if it believes that there is such a thing as a humane war. Such a belief only makes war more likely.
Lazlo Zalezac, Jade Force of Misera series, book 3 First Contract
Ch.2
If you are in hostile territory and you're not prepared to fire first, then you should be prepared to die first
Lazlo Zalezac, Jade Force of Misera series, book 8 Civil War in Misera
Ch.4
A civil right is a contract between a citizens and their government. When the government violates the civil rights of an individual, it is breaking the contract
ETA: Finished the series, but missed posting quite a few quotes as I was too deeply immersed in the story.
Concordia by A.A. Nemo Chapter 2
I almost went after him to tell him it was my mistake. Then I thought about it. How would I explain all of this including the fact I had Burns' wallet, passport, money and watch? I don't think anyone would think too highly of someone who robbed the dead during a ship wreck.
https://storiesonline.net/s/73386/concordia
https://storiesonline.net/a/a-a-nemo
