Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!" "Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect..." "Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!" "I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny. "No! My mum would take herself!" "What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said. "The fire!

You can't die with an unfinished book.

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

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.