"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.