...I said I was sorry.” “Be sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.

And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.

Magic won't save us. The power it would take to conjure on such a scale, the tithe would destroy us. The only hope...is hope. You don't need tokens for it - it's in your heart or nowhere. And in your heart, child, it had been stronger than I have ever seen.

Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

It was Kizzy's first kiss and maybe it was her last and it was delicious.