No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!

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

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.

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.