“Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory

“Someday, Locke Lamora,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I’m still around to see it.”
“Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.”
― Quentin Crisp, Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behaviour

“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi