If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy.

A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.

If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back and haunt you. I'll make your life a complete misery. No ghost will ever have been as inventive in its nastiness as I'll be: I'll turn your food rancid; I'll transform your drink into blood; I'll howl and moan throughout the night; there'll be no place safe from me. And don't think I couldn't do it, Thirrin, Queen of Icemark, because I can assure you, I could.

One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you.

To be really honest, I think if anybody did derive comfort from the fact that 'there's always someone worse off than yourself,' they'd have to be a pretty sad and sick individual. If I've sprained my wrist, I'm not made happier by the thought that someone somewhere has broken their leg!