Bethan

“I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

“She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness."

Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. He had slept badly. Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“A fickle heart is the only constant in this world”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal