“You’re an interesting case,” she said. There is really no end to life’s little humiliations, Quentin reflected. - Lev Grossman

Could the man really not have explained? Did his daughter really not understand what had happened? It didn’t add up. If they’d talked about it and figured things out it could have been a happy ending. People in fairy tales never just figured things out.

But of course You can get so much done when everyone thinks You’re dead. No interruptions. No one prays to a dead God, why would they?

That’s when they turned to religion.
At this Julia pushed her chair back from the table. She could feel her intellectual gag reflex about to kick in.