"Did you have any luck?""Not a bit"

"Did you have any luck?""Not a bit" - Ever Since by Donald Antrim

"I don't know what to say"

"I don't know what to say" - Ever Since by Donald Antrim

"Sorry, I was trying to avoid someone"

"Sorry, I was trying to avoid someone" - Ever Since by Donald Antrim

"You can't just drop a bunch of rocks in a pile to make a stone wall"

"You can't just drop a bunch of rocks in a pile to make a stone wall" - Ever Since by Donald Antrim

"I'm only suffering minor embarrassment"

"I'm only suffering minor embarrassment" - Ever Since by Donald Antrim

"The world is incredible at this time of day, isn't it?"

"The world is incredible at this time of day, isn't it?" - Ever Since by Donald Antrim

"Better than working, isn't it?"

"Better than working, isn't it?" - Los Gigantes by T. C. Boyle

"All my life I'd been the one looking down on the world"

"All my life I'd been the one looking down on the world" - Los Gigantes by T. C. Boyle

"I could think of nothing major I'd done to deserve the current cold freeze"

"I could think of nothing major I'd done to deserve the current cold freeze" - 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs

"Nowhere is safe these days"

"Nowhere is safe these days" - Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin

"Are you trying to say it's a pychological problem?"

"Are you trying to say it's a pychological problem?" - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

"The fastest thing on the road"

"The fastest thing on the road" - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

"Don't you know the grass is always green"

"Don't you know the grass is always green" - South by Southwest by Sherman Alexie

"Let's go someplace else"

"Let's go someplace else" - Assimilation by Sherman Alexie

"He turned around and a shudder ran along his spine"

"He turned around and a shudder ran along his spine" - Slash and Burn by Colin Cotterill

"I've had all sorts of adventures"

"I've had all sorts of adventures" - The Climber Room by Sam Lipsyte

"You were going to do all the wonderful things"

"You were going to do all the wonderful things" - The Climber Room by Sam Lipsyte

"He did not care about anything that had happened in that place"

"He did not care about anything that had happened in that place" - Leaving Maverly by Alice Munro

"He did not want to explain anything to anybody"

"He did not want to explain anything to anybody" - Leaving Maverly by Alice Munro

"All signs said that the right thing to do was to go back there"

"All signs said that the right thing to do was to go back there" - Leaving Maverly by Alice Munro