We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.

The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it.

Their families cordially detested one another.

...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).