Ms. Smartarse’s Reviews > Shades of Grey > Status Update

“I’m not here to give you public feedback every time someone criticizes you.”
“Is that a fact? Then what are you here for? Marriage is a couple mutually joined as one but doing what the higher hue demands. Didn’t your mother teach you anything?”
“I’m sure she was going to tell me how insanely bossy up-color girls could be, but then she [contracted a mortal illness], and it must have slipped her mind.”

"If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.”
“I understand there’s a one hundred percent fatality rate?”
“True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn’t let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.”

I must've started listening to the sequel at least 10 times by now, but an 11-year pause is way too much for me to just go with the flow.