I can’t live forever. Each time something like this affair lands in my lap, I suddenly recall that I don’t want to live forever. - Scott Lynch

Damn it, when will you learn that refusing to admit you’ve lost isn’t the same as winning?

In my dreams I sign chits and file papers, Nikoros muttered. Then I awake to sign real chits and file real papers. I imagine my grave marker will be carved as a writing desk. 'Here lies Nikoros Via Lupa, wifeless and heirless, but gods how he could alphabetize!'

Sure, kid. Look, there's a very old saying in my family: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is another wizard fucking with you.'