When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous