“My customary exercise consists of a short stroll from the Temple tube to Equity Court, and rising to object to impertinent questions put by prosecuting counsel.”
“I'm asexual, though occasionally I'm attracted to inanimate objects. Mainly tube-shaped objects.”
“I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.”
“Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.”
“Life is too short to turn it into a court”
“You got someone else courting you?""No." The fork she'd been scrubbing slid from her hand, returning to the murky depths. "But then, I wasn't sure I had you courting me, either. I seem to recall you expressing a number of objections to my suitability in the past.”