Claudette Althoff

“The games are always been played, and no one plays the games like me. You just have to be the best.
And I usually am.”
― Irvine Welsh, Filth

“My heart aches, a drowsy numbness pains as if of hemlock I had drunk."

Ode To A NIghtengale, John Keats”
― Barbara Sontheimer

“Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died."
"Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a mouthful of pancake.
"My cat. When I was five, Tinkles died choking on a mouse that was a bit ambitious for a kitten to eat."
"It was terribly traumatic for Aurelia because it was the first time she'd experienced loss." 
"What did you do to help her get through it?" 
Rosalind smiled at Mother Guardian. "Well, after a good cry, we performed an autopsy."
Aurelia reached for her mother's hand. "I never thanked you for that.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“I sat there in the lobby with a 7Up and a hog-tied Japanese nymphomaniac locked in my room”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution