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

News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.

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

If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good

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

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?

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.