Really? I thought that was just the cover line of all my report cards.

[It's Byerly's expression that Prior waits on, not what he says. Well, there are all those stories about the first time british people tried bananas - coming from an oversaturated age it's rare to see someone really trying something new.]

I'm fond of flawed things. Maybe that's why I like people so much. Most people. But I think there's a second part - something like and live to fuck up again another day. We're tenacious, aren't we?

[He picks another berry from the bowl. They're stupidly ripe staining his fingertips already.]

Malice sounds dramatic. [But so does war before the bombs fall.] Did anyone ask for a rhyme about plotting our downfall?