Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

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.

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

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

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?

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.