Kasey Coyle

“Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

“Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

“Isn’t that cheating?

Tfu! She expects you to cheat! Masha, whom I love: These tasks do not test your strength or your wiliness; they test your ability to cheat, which is the truest measure of a devil. They are designed to be impossible if you play fair.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless