Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.