Death is only frightening from the near side.

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.