"Yeah, I keep crossing my fingers for a house fire that mysteriously only I survive." He was kidding. Kind of. He didn't really want his family to die. Well. Maybe Hastur. And Ligur. Maybe most of them. All right, not the path to go down right now, he had less murderous thoughts to focus on.

"Aziraphale's cool." Well. He was decidedly not. "In his own way, I mean. He's smart, he's brilliant, I swear. And he's funny too, sometimes intentionally. Always unintentionally. He's got such joy and he's got a-- You know how everyone here is kind of born tired of life? Sick of it all, hating everything and cursing out everyone? Aziraphale's the opposite of that. Like my shard of light."

He supposed he had changed Crowley's life too. "Makes me be a better person. Being with him."

Wait. "Friends with him. I mean."