You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn't your fault, no one listened to you. Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn't care.

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.