Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do." "Oh," said Harry. "You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought. "Thanks," said Harry.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil