The man in the mirror is meant to be a stranger. If he and I were to ever become the same person, it would be a fate worse than death.

I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.

At least you pay for them.”

“I could support a foundling hospital, and you would applaud my virtue.”

“I didn’t expect you to populate your own orphanage,” she said.

One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three—and six—is simply wrong. Wrong.

She was delighted to meet her old self when the wind unexpectedly blew in her direction. The remains of whom she had burnt to ashes & scattered in the air