“In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.”
“Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.”
“It has been said that as goes the family, so goes the world. It can also be said that as goes the father, so goes the family.”
“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.”
“Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions...”
“My father used to say some families are made by shared blood and some families are made by spilled blood”