I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it. - Neil Gaiman

I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It’s as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.

“Just go with it. It won’t hurt.”
I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

She said she would tell our fortunes from the lines in our palms, if we had coins to cross her palm. I gave the old biddy a clipped lowland groat, and she looked at the palm of my right hand.
She said, “I see death in your past and death in your future.”
“Death waits in all our futures,” I said.