You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.