'Allies,'" he explained, "means we agree not to kill each other." "I knew that," she said. "It just slipped my mind for a second. - Tim Powers

People are so tasty when they’re truly embittered, truly despairing...and that’s when they come to Sevatividam. They can’t stand the bitter rain, so they run in under one of the two awnings—religion or dissipation—and guess who’s waiting for them under both awnings at once...

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

“Whats o’clock?”
It wants a quarter to twelve,
And to-morrow’s doomsday.