It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.