“Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.”
“All right," Clara said. "We have our swordsman, so let's get moving. Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.”
“I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.”
“I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.”
“If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.”
“If you don't even try, the answer is no. If you do make an attempt, the answer is at least a maybe.”