“Why do you wear your face like that?”

Nie Huaisang's hand comes up partway to Meng Yao's face before his fingers curl inwards. Meng Yao's eyes go wide and tremulous before the corners of his mouth curl into a small smile, like one of the soundless laughs shared between them in the midst of a banquet speech.

There are worse things than being lashed.

Some species remain colonial year round while others only gather together for winter hibernation.

Gentrification is the consumption of the working class.

They do a lot of talking in the sweet air of the control room, about everything and nothing.

Sixteen ways of looking at a rabbit.

Nightmares are rarely invented entirely out of whole cloth.

An operative from the future tells Wade that he has two options: kill himself before he has a chance to live 2000 years and become Cable's accomplice in dictatorship, or kill Cable. So now, Wade has thirty days to figure out a way to die. Unfortunately, most of his ideas involve convincing Cable to kill him. Fortunately, most of Cable's ideas for stopping him involve sex.

Tom is snowed in at Cortina with Dickie and Marge and Peter and Freddie. Sometimes he's really a very lucky boy.

Tybalt and Mercutio were childhood friends, of a sort.