Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.

That though he is weak, he can still burn.

[Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.

Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.

Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and it also occasionally held his evil former lady love.