old quotes unearthed.

'He believed it was always a mistake to open a conversation cold; more than a mistake, a kind of assault. It took time, he felt, for two people to organise their feelings about each other, to bring them out of store, before it was appropriate to speak the first words.' -- Firesong, William Nicholson.

My table looks pristine and I'm completely, as the Feegles would claim, 'pished'. I'm going to have to gallivant hard tomorrow to make up for this.