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“Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?'

'Neythen, my lord.'

'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“Neythen looked perplexed. 'My mum always said I'm named after a saint, not an illness.'

'Which one?'

'Well he had his head chopped off, see? And then he picked it up and carried it down the road a time. All the way back home, I think.'

'Messy,' Piers said. 'Not to mention unlikely, though one has to think of chickens and their post-mortal abilities. Did she think that you would inherit the same gift?'

Neythen blinked. 'No, my lord.'

'Perhaps she was just hopeful. It behooves mothers to look ahead to this sort of possibility, after all. I'm tempted to behead you just to see if she was right.Sometimes the most unlikely superstitions turn out to have a basis in fact.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“You need to be strong on your own before you can be strong with someone else.”
― Jennifer Probst, The Marriage Mistake

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore