Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again. - Alison Bechdel

Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure?

Clarice: To most people, it's obvious that the Whitewater allegations and the sexual harassment suit are politically motivated. And everyone else is too jaded to care if Bill fucks his cat.
Raffi: Fucks!
Toni: Do you want the honor of recording that under "Baby's first word," or shall I?

Or maybe he had gotten too inured to death, and was hoping to elicit from me an expression of the natural horror he was no longer capable of...I have made use of this technique myself, however, this attempts to access emotions vicariously...eager to detect in my listener that flinch of grief that eluded me.