Juliet Feather

“Shelby’s one of those proudly blunt people whose eyes flick away the moment before they say something hard, a giveaway to softness churning underneath”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“we take for lovers or husbands. You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you’ll understand it later: men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“Is there some other way of locating him?” Crowley shrugged. “Search me,” he said. “How much experience do you think I’ve got in these matters? Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“WHAT,” ASKED MR. CROUP, “do you want?” “What,” asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, “does anyone want?” “Dead things,” suggested Mr. Vandemar. “Extra teeth.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere