Can I help you?" said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humor.

“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”

“Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high advent…”

“Books are real places, make no mistake about that”

“If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.”