You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.