Mythlee

“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Commodore

“When Jack came in he found him sitting before a tray of bird's skins and labels. Stephen looked up, and after a moment said, 'To a tormented mind there is nothing, I believe, more irritating than comfort. Apart from anything else it often implies superior wisdom in the comforter. But I am very sorry for your trouble, my dear.'

'Thank you, Stephen. Had you told me that there was always a tomorrow, I think I should have thrust your calendar down your throat.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Commodore

“you’re not that important and it ain’t up to you to fix the universe?”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls

“For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even less of this valuable substance scenting him and the very air about him there can be no doubt of the matter; and such is the nature of the human mind that he experiences a far greater real benefit than the drug itself would provide, were it deprived of its stench.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Commodore