“At first I was exhilarated by my freedom from the responsibility of the kingship. This lasted about seven minutes. I was also depressed by my freedom from marriage, for I had become accustomed to the attentions of a woman. This lasted about nine minutes. Then I was bored.”
“I was nine minutes late for my last birthday party. And I was nine months on time for my first birthday.”
“It’s ironic. At last I have my freedom. But at a price. Now my destiny is mine to choose. - Stanley aka Nine”
“Daemon had not stayed.My smile slipped from my face.He was standing by the window, his back to me. “I got bored.”“I wasn’t even gone five minutes.”“I have a short attention span.”
“Any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it just to stand one minute on God's earth a free woman.”
“but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.”