And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.
And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
A nervous silence loosens tongues
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.