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Beauty was like a big umbrella, both useful and awkward to handle.
At the bottom were peasants, who grew food and carried away garbage. Society would collapse without them, so they were treated horribly.
People acted as if a first sexual experience must be saved, then spent at the precise right time. Virginity as stocks and shares, precious then abruptly worthless.
“I acted as if I was the only real person in the world. That’s what a villain is.
If worth had an expiry date, it wasn’t worth much.
He could go stroke his tiny goatee of bureaucratic evil elsewhere. Rae was not in the mood.
Devotion to scholarship had a disastrous impact on physical fitness.
If swagger was against the law, I’d already be doing life.”
Many maids had an eye for Key. He didn’t possess money or status, so their attraction was based on his beautiful face and hideous reputation. Their wits had clearly gone begging and received no alms.
The king must have abdicated, because guilty silence suddenly reigned.
“I did what I must to survive. Then I did many other things because I thought they would be funny, and make me look cool.”
