Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?

He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.