Kris

“Remember, Vera reminds herself, your ass is bad. Very bad. And that is a good thing.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“No one’s richer than Scrooge McDuck,” Peter said. “Wrong,” Mackie said. “He’s worth, like, fifty billion, tops.” “There was a comic where he said that if he spent a billion dollars a minute, he’d be broke in six hundred years, which would put his worth in the mid quadrillions,” Peter said. “And that was in the seventies. It might be in the quintillions now with inflation.” “He’s self-reporting,” Cyrus said. “You can’t trust rich people to honestly tell you what they’re worth. Even a duck.” “Especially a duck,” Lisa chimed in, for the hell of it. “Realistically,” Mackie said, “he’s worth about fifty billion.” “Realistically, for a cartoon duck,” Peter said.”
― John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye

“Vera should be content. And she is, really. But she's also kind of - dare she say it - bored.
Sometimes, all an old lady wants is a murder to solve. Is that too much to ask for ?”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man]

“If all of your options are terrible,” he said slowly, “then that is a trap of a different sort, isn’t it?”
― Olivia Atwater, Ten Thousand Stitches