We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.