Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.

Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do." "Oh," said Harry. "You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought. "Thanks," said Harry.

Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

There are things you don't want to know you can do