Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.

You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal." "I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.

I think everyone always has time to suffer.

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows.

Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful.