Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

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

As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages. Quite why they should dress up for children’s wallpaper as well was a mystery. Hello, little folk, this is what you’re going to eat… He felt that if only he could find the key to it, he’d know a lot more about human beings.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.