Amber

“I’m getting my cosmetologist’s license,” she told them, cigarette dangling from her lower lip while she worked, its ash somehow never falling. “That’s harder than law school. An esthetician has to know finger waving, back-combing, roller formations, comb-outs, cross-combing, skip waving, and shingling. All a lawyer does is say ‘Your Honor’ and sue people.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“And, in the end, as in the story, all that might be left besides horror and regret was a streetlight shining on a “quiet and deserted road.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Absolution

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, dammit.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride