I just had a word with him. Timmers and I have this little understanding. He behaves himself and he gets to keep his front teeth.

If you would truly rather be dead than go on living the way you do, you have nothing to lose by trying to change things, have you?” Britta said, carefully keeping any trace of pity from her voice. “There is more to life than Illica, you now. The world is wide, and full of wonders.

Isn’t it amazing how it’s always the very people who insist other people be grateful for charity that get the most insulted when they’re offered charity themselves? I’ve often noticed it.

Barbarians!’ he roared. ‘Filthy barbarians!

What cannot be changed, must be endured,” he said grimly. “Our duty now is to the living.

I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that’s as far as I’ll go.

You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don’t know what you’re going to find.

All is well that ends well.