Carla

“A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.”
― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate

“You kill, you lie, you rob, you hit old men and steal their boots. I only thank God you draw the line at swearing - it would have been just too dreadful otherwise.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

“Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon

“«Dammi del veleno» disse lei con uno sbuffo sonoro, dato dalla sua incapacità di dialogare come una persona normale. Meglio mettere subito fine alle sue sofferenze. «Il risultato potrebbe essere lo stesso», Orfeo iniziò a mescolare la sua creazione, che aveva preso una ben poco invitante sfumatura di verde «Non ho mai detto di essere un bravo barista». - Capitolo 1”
― Carla Longo, Musica all'Inferno