“Advice,” chuckled Doña Vorchenza. “The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one’s mutterings… — Scott Lynch

You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.

Hard lessons were handed out. As many men learned to their sorrow, it’s impossible to be intimidating when one angry woman has your cock between her teeth and another is holding a stiletto to your kidneys.

I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise—haven’t you?