Ali

“They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

“I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“We are not going to die."

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?"

"No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat