And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

“Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she we…”

“You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about bir…”

“I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of cou…”

“The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as …”