I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if we intend to keep you an intimate dinner company." "I expected the corset unlacing would take place after dinner," Celia says mildly, earning a chorus of laughter. "We shall keep Miss Bowen as intimate company regardless of the state of her corset," Chandresh says. "Make a note of that," he adds, waving a hand at Marco. "Miss Bowen's corset is duly noted, sir," Marco replies, and the laghter bubbles over the table again.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.