When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.