It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.

It's just as I thought," she said. "I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.