Intense Narrative Lover Gifts

'Heathcliff! Oh, Heathcliff!'

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

"Siri, who’s the fairest of them all?"

'I've had the place gob-stopper-dashed.'

". . . I called this meeting to communicate that I had dinner Noah..."

"What did Jesus order?"

Three little pigs-mortgage.

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

'Mummy, the review of this book was more interesting.'

'I said, you're supposed to be in the underworld.'

Guy on island sees giant ship in bottle.

'This definitely calls for group therapy.'

'Two pencils approach Noah's ark.'

Toni Morrison

"Tell us again — a little less graphic."

'If little girls are made of sugar and spire and everything nice, where does genetics fit into the picture?'

Jonah met a strange wooden boy in the belly of the whale.

"Well, if you don’t want to discuss exposure, drowning or sharks, what do you want to talk about?"

'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?'

"You know, it's a picture book. Needless to say, it doesn't have a lot of narrative scope."

"If you ask me, you can't go wrong with this beautiful bouquet of marijuana."

Great literary festival heckles.

'Read me the one about the three homeless little pigs.'

'You're not Gramma! You're Wolf Blitzer!'

'Put the sword back in the stone right now, little girl, and we'll pretend this never happened.'

Solemn reference is made to Mr. Bunsby

The Big Bad Wolf blows down a house.

An interview with Codlin and Short

'Last night Gary put me in an impossible position.'