Kristina

“His sudden and utterly overwhelming panic was over almost before it began; but not quickly enough. In the midst of his brief yet total terror, the King of Pontus shat himself. It went everywhere, solid faeces mixed with what seemed an incredible amount of more liquid bowel contents, a stinking brown mess all over the gold-encrusted purple cloth of his cushion, trickling down the legs of his throne, running down his own legs into the manes of the golden lions upon the flaps of his boots, pooling and plopping on the deck around his feet when he jumped up. And there was nowhere to go! He could not conceal it from the amazed eyes of his attendants and officers, he could not conceal it from the sailors below amidships who had looked up instinctively to make sure their King was safe.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Grass Crown

“Я вообще живу не раздумывая, поэтому мне всегда весело.
Люсиль - Джордан Бейкер
"Великий Гэтсби”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Великий Гэтсби. Ночь нежна. Рассказы

“She is by no means a model character.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.”
― Colleen McCullough, Masters of Rome Collection Books I - V: First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, Fortune's Favourites, Caesar's Women, Caesar