If Not You, Who Else?

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.

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

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.