“No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.”
“I brushed my hands on the pockets of my jeans, still marvelling at the fact I wasn't wearing a gown. And that I had real underwear on. It was the small things”
“There is nobody as irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ”
“Miss Kwan said, putting her voice into its “kindly” mode, which was only slightly less scary than full-on shouting.”
“[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97”
“There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)”