Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.

Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.

The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.