I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

I long for another human face just as I fear it.

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills.