Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.

The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the big climates.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.

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

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.