If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.