Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.

Of course I saved you," she said. "I couldn't do without you." And because she was happy and flushed with magic Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.

I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them.

Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.