Public fact becomes private reality, and the seasons of a Midwestern town become the Moirai of our small lives.

In encryption, theoretically only the user or program authorized to retrieve the data knows how to unshuffle the ciphertext and compile the data in its original sequence.

She shrugged. I've told you all I know. / Mallarky. You haven't even begun to spill and you know it.

I have got a very fine shirt, which I am going to use for my wedding shirt; but there are three tallow stains on it which I want washed out; and I have made a vow that I will not take any other woman for a wife than the one who is able to do that; if she cannot do that, she is not worth having, said the prince.