„This,” I said pleasantly, “is known as getting it on.“

— Stephen King
„Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.“
— Douglas Adams
„You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when.""I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.“
— Cassandra Clare