I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.

She laughed like she'd just invented laughter.​

When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy

Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.

There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.

I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.