Maliciousness

I came across this sentence in The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera. The sentence describes a snobby ex-patriot in Papua, New Guinea who just made a racist comment to her friend at the country club.

Her laughter glittered like knives.

Deliciousness

Loretta found this phrase in, of all places, a Wired magazine article on the democratization of manufacturing (Atoms are the New Bits by Chris Anderson).

The irony is delicious: the seeds of tomorrow's industry growing in the ashes of yesterday's.

Well, we are starting a blog . . . .

Loretta and I decided to start a blog where we will memorialize phrases that we came across in books or magazines. Not so much for the blogginess of it, but for the ability to easily document and remember usage of the language that we particularly enjoyed.