He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.