Trader

My trouble is I kind of live in assonance—my whole life is getting the rhyme wrong, do you know what I mean? Instead of finding the right rhyme, I'm just stringing together all these vowel sounds.

I'm not trying to get you to forget her. I just don't want you to forget yourself in the process.
Jilly

"Nothing's free in this world," Zeffy told her, "except leftovers and friendship and even friendship costs. The difference is, usually we don't mind paying the coin it requires."

I wonder if the world's getting worse, or if we're just paying more attention to the shadows.