Ted

“For the most part, he'd accepted that some people were born to be Extraordinaries, and some people were born to be medicated so they didn't spin out of control. Fair? Not really, but Nick was learning that his brain could do things that others couldn't. In a way, he had his own superpower, even if it was called a disorder.”
― T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries

“But you have the nimble mind and quick fancy of youth, turning over from the thing that is half done to a further task beyond.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel

“Somebody tells you they drink because they’re a failure, it ain’t so. They’re a failure because they drink. And they drink because it’s so damn hard not to. But as long as they have a bottle that isn’t empty, they never feel far from being happy.

("Bums")”
― William Kent Krueger, Twin Cities Noir

“Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?'

'Oh, rather!'

'What do you do about it?'

'I generally take a couple of cocktails.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Doctor Sally