Michelle

“never let it be said that Augustus Berrycloth-Young shirked his duty as a keeper of the secret flame. Not that I have the faintest idea where the secret flame might possibly be, although I assume that’s because it is a secret.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Masquerades of Spring

“But no sybaritic pleasure, no drink, no food, no wide magnificent vista can top seeing yourself reflected the way you want to be reflected in your lover’s eyes.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Masquerades of Spring

“Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas List

“I may not be the greatest practitioner to have graced the playing fields of Casterbrook, I may have chosen to squander my talents on pranks and japes, and I, most definitely, am not in the weight class of Nightingale… But I am a keeper of the secret flame, a sayer of the three sacred oaths, and a man who carries a staff of power. Except when it clashed with that evening’s outfit. But, metaphorically speaking, I carry it with me wherever I go.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Masquerades of Spring