“Flotsam floats when all is sunk.
Jetsam thrown isn't just junk.
Coughs and colds and bright red sores
Waiting for us, so bend yer oars!”

—  Garth Nix

Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Drowned Wednesday (2005), p. 53.

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