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.

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

There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

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

It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

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

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.