But, though French, she was also very brave.

How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.