Tess_BBooks

“The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful."
"There's a literature about this?"
"You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot

“I may be a city boy, but I'm fairly certain that the greasy purple and red squishy bits are supposed to stay inside the sheep and not be sprayed across a surprisingly large area.

"Animal attack?" I asked.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer