The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

I know you pretty well." "Better than anyone I think." I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.