A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the hope of finding dinner while avoiding being the main course.

Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it