It was the sound of death, the ultimate irreversible. - Lev Grossman

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn’t doing it.

I was just getting comfortable," she said. "Gimme another sec."
"You can have all the sex you want.

Just then, for an instant, the film of reality slipped off the spokes of its projector. Everything went completely askew and then righted itself again as if nothing had happened.