Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.

“Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. …”

“The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alliga…”

“And the state of his bathroom -- I'm not one to gossip, but there are things cr…”

“In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.”