I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.