Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.

Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

If I need you I'll give you a signal.' What signal?" I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby.

Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.