“On the other hand, it is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.”

— Diana Wynne Jones, book Howl's Moving Castle

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Source: Howl's Moving Castle

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English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011

Jay London (1966) American comedian

One-liners

“When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.”

Peg Bracken (1918–2007) American writer

I Didn't Come Here to Argue (1969), "It's a Funny Thing About Me, but Not Very," page 51.

“He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair -- Look at what's really there.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

“They want to be tied up, I tie them up. They want to be spanked, I spank them. They want to be called names, I call them names. But try and drink a little of their blood, and they scream like babies. What about my needs?”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

“If one's son begins acting kind of gay, then when he is spanked he'll change his behavior.”

Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect

At the program Participação Popular on TV Câmara on 17 November 2010. Deputado federal defende na TV agressões físicas para mudar "filho gayzinho" http://www2.camara.leg.br/camaranoticias/noticias/DIREITOS-HUMANOS/151706-COMISSAO-VAI-DEBATER-DECLARACAO-DE-BOLSONARO-SOBRE-PUNICAO-A-FILHO-GAY.html. Folha de S.Paulo (25 November 2010).