Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
trying ifs knows
All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.
attention hummingbirds attention-span
He has the attention span of a hummingbird.
compliment
Compliment but do not covet.
sexy adventure average
It's about average for us. Behavior always draws more than survey. We're the sexy ones,' Nate said with a grin. Amy snorted. 'Oh, yeah, you guys are the Mae Wests of the nerd world.' We're action nerds,' Nate said. 'Adventure nerds. Nerds of romance.
brain zombie needs
What this movie needs is more brain eating zombies.
dream mirrors alive
They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will mirror their illusions.
white cake devil
Devil's Food?" You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.
dragons demon foul
Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.
dream kings years
Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?
girlfriend lilies abby
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. --from The Chronicles of Abby Normal
doors littles abby
Then someone started pounding on the door. And not a little "Hey, what's up?" pound. Like there was a big sale on door pounds down at the Pound Outlet. Buy one, get one free at Pounds-n-Stuff. --Being the Journal of Abby Normal
whales kevin killers
All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?
appealing elements far grasp tonal
There are some elements that are tonal and some are not. But nothing so far out you can't grasp it. It's appealing music.
bored close fitting funny generally humorous matters novels stories tend throw
The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get bored easily, so I generally throw something supernatural in. I would say they're humorous novels that have a supernatural bent, but that's as close as you're going to get to fitting them all in the same basket.