“Right now. Living. Aiming to misbehave or just trying not to fade away.”

“I’ve got to hit the bottom of this weird-ass rabbit hole anytime now, right?”

“Dipsomancy is very real, but it takes more than just getting hammered to do anything useful.”

“The room continued to spin though she was standing still, but her ears were hot. She felt like she'd just slammed three doubles of tequila and needed a fistfight chaser.”

“If our cover breaks in here, we’re toast. Worse that toast, we’re the crappy crumbs of carbon left at the bottom of a toster oven that I haven’t cleaned out in three months.”

“So, how bad of an idea is it to go there? On a scale of cooking-whithout-a-shirt to being-an-evil-priest-in-an-Alexandre-Dumas-book?”

“Infighting would be stupid, since, y'know, claws and teeth.”