Bobbi

“You got no business coming in here and playing the asshole.’
‘I am an asshole, Sully. We haven’t even scraped the surface yet.”
― Daniel Polansky, She Who Waits

“When bowing to the inevitable, it’s best to do so low, and quickly.”
― Daniel Polansky, She Who Waits

“Are you – who make your living snooping – sneering at my curiosity about people and my attempts to satisfy it?" "We're different," I said. "I do mine with the object of putting people in jail, and I get paid for it, though not as much as I should." "That's not different," he said. "I do mine with the object of putting people in books, and I get paid for it, though not as much as I should." "Yeah, but what good does that do?" "God knows. What good does putting them in jail do?" "Relieves congestion," I said. "Put enough people in jail, and cities wouldn't have traffic problems.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse

“She’d stopped looking tired a while ago and had moved on to whatever tired turns into when it became a lifestyle.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War