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*

"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."

Thinking about how Mrs Everdeen got Maysilee's pet bird after she died and in-narrative it's presented as a nice thing but it was probably because Maysilee's family couldn't bear to have it in the house, especially since she died because she was attacked by birds

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and future wife Countess Sophie of  Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin, playing tennis.

Nicholas: Alicky, do you have to look at everything in such a negative light?

Alexandra: Could you possibly be referring to the harsh light of reality?

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