“He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared.”

“Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy inside and out.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

“[Medea] looked toward the gates and found him still even as he went; and alas! as he departed still comelier seemed the stranger to the lovelorn girl: such shoulders, such frame doth he leave to her remembrance.”
Respexit que fores et adhuc invenit euntem, visus et heu miserae tunc pulchrior hospes amanti discedens; tales umeros, ea terga relinquit.

Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica

“Yes," I said "You were saved by a girl. Horrible, isn't it?"
He slid out and looked down at my bare legs. "Not just a girl, but a half-naked one. Now that's hot. If I'm still unconscious, don't wake me, okay?”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

“Have you seen them?" he asked. Arrow looked at him disinterestedly. Will frowned.
Not talking, eh?" he said. "Maybe you're a little hoarse."
He cackled breifly at his own wit.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

“I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers.
"Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?"
"Not just 'some guy'." I tell him. "The guy.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

“He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”

Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist

“What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer