“If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”
“Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”
“I won't read a book whose pages have been dog-eared, because I'm more of a cat person.”
“They were following me because I was ahead of them, which is no way to choose a leader. Following someone simply because they're out in front is never a good idea, but it happens all the time.”
“I asked once, and the library assistant told me there were more than a hundred thousand books there, and more than sixty million pages of documents. It's a good number, I think: ten pages for every person who died. A kind of monument in paper for people who have no gravestones.”
“Don’t make me beg, Kitten. Don’t make me beg in front of all these people. It’s embarrassing.”