Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.