Mia

“Time to climb back up,” she said, and began walking. Em blinked. Frowned. “What?” “Climbing up. To the surface?” “That’s not what you said.” Gyre stopped, listening to the water sliding from her suit, pattering against the shallow pool she stood in. “Of course it is. What else would I have said?” “You said time to climb back down.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Luminous Dead

“Well, you know what they say."
"'A chipped pot still holds soup'?"
"I was going to go with 'one-legged whore's still got holes.”
― Lara Elena Donnelly, Amberlough