"We're getting old," he said. "No," said Paula Zarte. "You are. I'm just not as young as I was." - Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Gene Newman was Catholic, although not so Catholic that he had more than two children.

The fifty-third Chuang Tzu wore the very first on his cloak as a diamond buckle. Every emperor became a diamond eventually. It was one of the few advantages of living as a carbon-based life form.

“Any chance you own a hijab?”
The answer was no, but Malika could borrow one. Come to that, she could steal one freshly washed off the wall behind her house and claim a sudden, God-inspired attack of modesty if she got caught. The old crows were quite stupid enough to believe that.