Léa

“He switched on the reading-lamp over the bed, took a cigarette from a pack which he replaced in his back pocket, lit it, and sat holding the cigarette before him, his hands cupped, like a starved buddha burning incense to itself.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

“Now young lady,’ he said to me, ‘I’m not going to chastize you personally because I can see you are a nice girl and only the innocent means to this abominable end. But you will be so kind as to give these tracts to your employers. Who can tell but that their hearts may yet be softened? The propagation of drink and of drunkenness to excess is an iniquity, a sin against the Lord.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

“But he decided to back down, knowing there are battles you fall on your sword over, others where you withdraw.”
― Jerry J.K. Rogers, The Fallen and the Elect: Book I - The Eulogy of Angels

“That’s the nice thing about me. I’m very flexible, I’m the universal substitute.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman