She was painfully aware that doing one’s best was never assurance that it wasn’t the wrong choice anyway. - M. K. Hobson

Zombies are soulless creatures, and being soulless has been empirically proven to result in an unpleasant disposition.

Emily’s chestnut-colored hair was thick and shiny as silk floss—an extraordinary female endowment. But like most female endowments, it was generally more trouble than it was worth.

In his idle hours, Heusler sometimes amused himself by trying to conceive of a crime a mortal man could commit that was more monstrous than making a goddess fall in love with him. He had never succeeded.