Barking hard work, being a boy.

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.