Amber Johnson

“To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're doing what I always warned you agin: you're a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do... Don't you worry that John Faa's heart is too soft to strike a blow when the time comes. And the time will come under judgement. Not under passion.”
― Philip Pullman

“Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London & the Road to Wigan Pier

“He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.”
― Robert A Heinlein