Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent

It was all very well being told that she could do nothing to make things better. Neverfell did not have the kind of mind that could take that quietly. She did not have the kind of mind that could be quiet at all.