Nicholas: Alicky, Do You Have To Look At Everything In Such A Negative Light?

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?

Alexandra: I hate talking about myself.

Maria: Get over it. I talk about myself constantly. Everyone loves me for it. I really am amazing.

Nicholas: I have no idea what I’m doing at this point I’m too afraid to ask

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

Nicholas: Oh, Alix, you're smiling! What at?

Alexandra: Oh, nothing. Life is misery.

"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."