Celestine

“And there’s no synthetic owners manual?” His lips twitched, smile threatening to break into a grin.

A joke. He wasn’t funny. “Do you come with an owners’ manual, Captain? Because I’d like to study your troubleshooting section.”

“Would you like to strip me down to my nuts and bolts, and figure out what makes me tick?”

“I knew what made you tick from the moment we first met. That’s why I punched you between the legs.”

~ #1001 & Caleb”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Trapped

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“There's four things a real man has to be able to do for a woman."
"Exactly how many man-lists do you have?"
He let my wrist go and ticked the items off on his fingers. "Fix her car. Grill her a steak. Kick the ass of any guy who makes her cry. And fuck her so hard she wakes up half-crippled."
"Oh my God.”
― Cara McKenna, After Hours

“It was difficult to explain the concept of a party pooper to somebody who didn’t really get the concept of a party”
― Delphine Dryden, The Theory of Attraction