Melindam

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams,

“We are all dying, just at different speeds.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

“It is Cinderella in reverse. It is hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. Nothing is as thrilling as they said it would be: no one is amusing, as clever, as attractive or as interesting. The sun never shines as bright as it used to, and even the fiercest thunderstorm lacks any real sense of drama or pizzaz. As the curtain falls, Group Captain Charming has left her for someone more suitable and has gone to live in France, and Buttons, in his zip-up jumpsuit, has taken up with a wearying succession of younger lovers. When Cinderella dies, her little glass slipper is put up for auction, a memento of days of hope and innocence. The catalogue entry reads: 'Only worn once.”
― Craig Brown, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

“All thirty-one of the Lavish lawyers stood up and spoke at once, incurring a total cost to their clients of of AM$119.28.”
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money