" One day you will be a prim middle-rank bureaucrat who wears a clean toga every day. You’ll talk of economics over breakfast and only eat lettuce for lunch. And I’ll have to sit at home with my face in an inch-thick flour pack, forever checking laundry bills.”
I controlled a smile. “Well, that’s a relief. I thought you were going to be difficult about my plans. "

― Lindsey Davis , Last Act in Palmyra (Marcus Didius Falco, #6)