Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?