Trish

“Who cares what word you use? Some aunts are completely irrelevant, and some aunts have been there since the day their niece was born. I had one grandmother I never saw and one who, when she died, I cried for three days. The word isn’t what matters. It’s the specific relationship.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“What we have here, he told himself, is a Mk1 Feisty Old Lady: turkey neck, embarrassing sense of humour, a gleeful pleasure in mild cruelty, direct way of speaking that flirts with rudeness and, more importantly, also flirts with flirting. Likes to think she’s no ‘lady’. Game for anything that doesn’t carry a risk of falling over and with a look in her eye that says 'I can do what I like because I'm old and I have a soft spot for rascals'. Old ladies like that were hard to fool.”
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money

“It is truly amazing how many flavors of dumb an apocalypse can spawn.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“Don't say 'complicated'—that's what powerless people say to make doing nothing OK.”
― Syou Ishida, We'll Prescribe You Another Cat