The Girl of Knowledge and Shadow

“Yes, I can strangle people by manipulating air. To name one element.”

“Nobody who is familiar with you and possesses a quantum of intelligence, so let’s just let Cruise Director Bill do it.”

“Still, that reminds me of a man who argued rather convincingly that the real crime wasn’t that the Athenians killed Socrates, but that they waited far too long to do it.”

“But are you weak to Ellen’s pet cat Sokrates?”

“Since when does Japanese have L’s, anyway?”

“‘Among others.’ Oh, how the mighty have fallen.”

“I’m suddenly reminded of seagulls flocking some unfortunate who has food.”

“Are you suggesting that millions of voices cried out and were suddenly silenced? Or that we have a new enemy?

“As I understand it, the debate of monarchy versus republic was, in this case, resolved in favor of what can be called a monarchy dressed up as a republic.”

“Furthermore, she’s French, or a very reasonable facsimile thereof.”

“When someone says I owe them reptiles, I release a black mamba in their house.”