“She did love us. Does.” “She loves you the way a drowning person loves somebody they can push down and climb… — Tim Powers

I owe a fortune in student loans, and after I got my degree in education and tried to apply it, I caught on that the emperor had no clothes—

“Did he say who he was?” asked Scott.

“I asked him,” said Ariel. “He sort of laughed and said he was between names.”

“Doesn’t she read chicken entrails?”

“Oh! No, astrology.”

“Same sort of thing.”