I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.

Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people?

It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.

People want incongruous, impossible things.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.

He held up a finger and went to the hallway, where he tripped over Blotchy, and then over the two monster cats madly pursuing Blotchy. Swearing, he leaned over the landing and called to the guard that unless the kingdom fell to war or his daughter was dying, he better not be interrupted until further notice.