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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)

The story so far:

In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Many races believe that it was created by some sort of god, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.

The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief, are small blue creatures with more than fifty arms each, who are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

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