He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.