I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off." "Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!" "So would I," said Gideon from across the room.

All knowledge hurts.

The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption