What you describe as the product of a mental imbalance, I would classify as swift, intuitive thinking to… — Karen Lord

One of the advantages of having languages as a hobby is that it can take you quite a while to run out of swear words.

Blood is blood, you know? There’s too much shared history and too many cross-connecting bonds to ever totally extract yourself from that half-smothering, half-supporting, muddled net called family.

And stop thinking you’re the superior ones! You’re just another drop in our gene pool! We’re all descended from peoples who thought they were kings and gods and who found themselves to be almost nothing at all in the end. Don’t let that be you.