“The guests will arrive soon,” he said, as lightly as if they had been only talking about the weather. “For this tedious chore we call a ‘party.’ We pronounce mingling with uninspired souls ‘charming,’ and talking of unimportant topics ‘delightful.’ Oh, I despise it.”

—  Tina Connolly

Source: Ironskin (2012), Chapter 10, “The Edge of the Forest” (p. 170)

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