Manda

“Rome was buzzing. Quite literally. Absolutely everyone had a mobile phone, and absolutely everybody was calling absolutely everybody else absolutely all the time. I wondered if there were some law making them compulsory. Frighteningly, it's possible, these days. I swear I saw a street beggar stop and take a call on his cellular. I even heard a trill from a baby carriage, but it turned out to be a toy mobile phone. They start dickhead training early in Italy.”
― Rob Grant, Incompetence

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.”
― Charles Stross, Saturn's Children

“Love as thou wilt”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen