If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.

Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside out and warp their destinies. They could pick up kingdoms and shake them until they rattled.

Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his persecution of terriers and his possessive love of the malthouse roof. In turn, when Mosca had interrupted Saracen’s self-important nightly patrol and scooped him up, Saracen had assumed that she too had her reasons.

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .