Nicholas: Have You Seen My Mother Recently?

Nicholas: Have you seen my mother recently?

Alexandra: I'm relatively happy. Is that an answer?

Nicholas: Okay, point taken. I wonder what she's doing. Maybe knitting, reading, playing with her dogs...

Alexandra: Planning a coup d'etat...

Nicholas: I know she doesn't like you much, but that's not what she's doing!

Maria: *secretly planning a coup d'etat*

i have my mother's eyes

and her hair

and her sense of humour

but hair changes

and so do eyes and a sense of humour

all i have to connect her to me

is things that will change

like everything does

and i suppose that is natural

but it is also tragic

because she will not change

the dead cannot

but i will

i will not always be the eleven year old i was

GISELE PIERRAT

Alexandra: Not everyone's a social butterfly, Maria. For some of us, human interaction is... difficult.

Maria: Not calling it human interaction might help...

Joséphine: Whether I'm gonna curse you out or take you back to my house, I haven't decided yet, but I'm gonna get you back.

In my dream world the new book is from Katniss’s dads POV

"It seems, in the matter of love, that the two - the Archduke and the Duchess - were the wisest, yet the late Empress and the Archduchess Zita are more often held as the ideal, the pinnacle, as it were. But the romance of 'Sopherl' and 'Franzi', as they call each-other, is undoubtedly, even in such a subjective matter as affection, something that should be looked up to, perhaps even idealised."