Frozen Beauty

This one is also really good, really clever (as I'm suspecting they all will be). However, I was completely distracted by the idea of space travel normally taking centuries and arriving at your destination and waking up and everything could have changed.

Three Men in a Boat, chapter 18

Our luck ordained it that the man should set his wreched machine in motion at the precise moment that we were both lying on our backs with a wild expression of 'Where am I? and what is it?' on our faces, and our feet waving madly in the air.

Three Men in a Boat, chapter 15

This is particularly apt, in my current dissertation-finishing state (also known as 'panic'):

It is not that I object to work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me, I can sit and look at it for hours.

Three Men in a Boat, chapter 12

We did not know what had happened at first, because the sail shut out the view, but from the nature of the language that rose up upon the evening air, we gathered that we had come into the neighbourhood of human beings, and that they were vexed and discontented.

Three Men in a Boat, chapter 6

There are many chuckle-some bits I'd like to quote. Here's one:

It was difficult to say, for the moment, which was us and which was the Middlesex bank of the river, but we found out after a while, and separated ourselves.

Three Men in a Boat, chapter 1

It is a curious fact, but nobody is ever sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick.