Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you.

“Yet it is true that there was an absent mindedness about her which sometimes ma…”

“For if it is rash to walk into a lion’s den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlan…”

“kindling all over with pleasure at the thought of the past.”

“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.”