Funny lines from novels

[bnmjy]

I had recently read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and I thought this was hilarious:

 

"I demand of you a thousand pardons, monsieur. I am without defense. For some months now I cultivate the marrows. This morning suddenly I enrage myself with the marrows. I send them to promenade themselves - alas! not only mentally but physically. I seize the biggest. I hurl him over the wall. Monsieur, I am ashamed. I prostrate myself."

[DragonSinger]

“It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.”

― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites

[Bouvre]

“You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...

'You never can tell...' he answered.

'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.

'I protest!' said Behemoth hotly, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”

 

--The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov