Good Omens Holiday Exchange

Before Aziraphale could take a moment to think through the pros and cons of shutting his mouth, he found himself already saying the first believable lie that came to his mind.

“It is not. We’re on a lunch date,” Aziraphale said, reaching out to take Crowley’s hand in his. “I didn’t know how to tell you. We’re engaged to be married.”
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The Observation and Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, on the End of the World (Which Was Never Meant to Happen in the Nineteenth Century in Any Case)

               He’d slept right through most of the nineteenth century…

               Everyone has their time. The time in which they thrive, when the world was made for them, and them for it. There are times when one can only struggle, when every challenge seems made specifically to require strengths one doesn’t have, to appeal to exactly those weaknesses which will break a person. But everyone, also, does have their time.

               Some people simply weren’t alive during theirs.