The medium obscured the message.

Compliment but do not covet.

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear.

I love you above all things, even pie.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.