“Fish like shiny things, stupid people like shiny things, and the late Nebular Romular Ichibar IV liked shiny things. He burned to death when he flew too close to a bright star, which ironically got swallowed up by the least shiny object in the universe—a black hole.”

“Rooster/Pisces: Likes shiny things.”

“Respect doesn’t have to be shiny. It just needs to be wearable. Would you be so kind as to hold my jockstrap while I stir your hot coffee?
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“People?" As though she'd never heard of such a thing. "They're like dolls. Plastic and shiny and fake.”

“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”

“I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show.”

“It’s a shiny tin can of a day, bright but gray. Welcome to one of Florida’s two overcast days per year. A Florida winter can last a brutally long 48 hours, and in that time the state’s residents don’t know how to cope. Probably there are more suicides on these two days in Florida than in a whole year of Seattle’s drizzly existence.”