“Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.”

“Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth.""But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began."Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.”

“So much saintlike patience cannot be good for anyone.”

“Beauty is harsh.”

“Are you going to wolf out and eat me now?""Certainly not, you'd be stringy and hard to digest.""But kosher.""I'll be sure to point any Jewish lycanthropes in your direction.”

“Will you come with me? For I cannot wait to share the world with you, Jem. There is so much to see.”

“There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.”