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Selima sa at nypoteter er nå engang nypoteter, og Hector var enig, han syntes også at nypoteter var nypoteter, og Ina var også enig, uten å være helt sikker på hva det var hun var enig i.

— Søstrene by Andreas E. Østby (translator), Jonas Hassen Khemiri

As India began to prosper, old ideas about accepting the life assigned by one’s caste or one’s divinities were yielding to a belief in earthly reinvention. Annawadians now spoke of better lives casually, as if fortune were a cousin arriving on Sunday, as if the future would look nothing like the past. Abdul’s brother Mirchi did not intend to sort garbage. He envisioned wearing a starched uniform and reporting to work at a luxury hotel. He’d heard of waiters who spent all day putting toothpicks into pieces of cheese, or aligning knives and forks on tables. He wanted a clean job like that. “Watch me!” he’d once snapped at their mother. “I’ll have a bathroom as big as this hut!”

— Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, Sunil Malhotra (Narrator)

"I like that hat!" he bawled. "What?" "I said, I like the hat." "I'm not wearing a hat." "Well, I like the head, then."

— Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams, Martin Freeman (Narrator) (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)

Etter at de hadde betalt i døren for å slippe inn, var det noen som slukket lyset i taket, og en middelaldrende mann kom inn i rommet mens han bar på et tent stearinlys. Han satte seg i lotusstilling, lukket øynene og begynte å kommunisere med åndene. Han spurte en gammel dame om hun nylig hadde mistet ektemannen.

Nei, ektemannen min er på Ica og kjøper økologiske tomater, sa hun.

— Søstrene by Andreas E. Østby (translator), Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Vogons are not above a little bribery and corruption in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds

— The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)