Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine. "Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.