“Have you been drinking?” I say. — Kelley Armstrong

"She isn’t old and cranky. She’s just cranky."

"To her credit, she is interesting. In the same way as a venomous snake."

"Fate deals unexpected hands, and we learn to play the cards we are given."

"Scotland has a reputation for overcast, drizzly weather, but in Edinburgh you get the wind thrown in for free."

"Here’s where I’m going wrong. Well, one of the many ways I am going wrong. I feel superior to these people. I’m from the twenty-first century. So much more enlightened than them. That’s bullshit, of course. I have the advantages of the modern world. Thinking it makes me smarter is the polar opposite of “enlightened.”"

"Like so many regulations the Anatomy Act was created to solve one problem and caused another."