You are like one of your bees, going from flower to flower, sampling the nectar of this and that. - Nick Drake

I would much rather have a living husband with no job and no gold than a dead one.

There is no such thing as a cheerful poem [...] Happiness writes in water, not ink.

'Come on, Rahotep. How do you think Royal Envoy Nakht gets his information about events in the north, and in the war? The army has its intelligence, and the palace has its own, too. The days when an invasion or an attack took place and no one heard about it for months are long gone. This war’s all about speed and information, and you can be sure Nakht has a very efficient system. The problem is, each system is always trying to infiltrate the other. And there’s always the danger of spies.’