A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.