Baskets that come in from outside the walls always leave half a pound lighter. That arithmetic doesn't appear in the guardhouse ledger.

• HelgaWeigh the bread before you feed it? Once it's in a starving man's stomach, that's the end of it.
  OrbanI only say this because that stomach belongs to just one cell on the third floor.
• MartaThe whole neighborhood knows that woman goes through the gate every week.
  OrbanBy the time the whole neighborhood knows, it's already too late.