“Talaith leaned forward, studied her youngest daughter. You think youre evil?Pure evil, Izzy clarified, which got her a rather vicious glare from Rhi. An expression Dagmar had never thought the youn...”

“Nowshe leaned in a bitwould you like to go flying with Grandmum before we take you home, so you can watch her toss cows around for no other reason than her own amusement?Sounds unnecessarily cruel....”

“ibhear isnt my friend. Hes kin. A blood relation.Which means what exactly?To a Cadwaladr, it means that if I have good cause, I could beat the scales off his back and get away with it.”

“A spy novel? Dagmar asked. You two are talking about a spy nov”

“They cant help it, you know. It happens in the egg, she reasoned. As soon as they grow that genitalia, intelligence goes right out the window and were left with this thing that just wants to stick ...”

“It wasnt the first time hed run for his life. And it most likely wouldnot be the last. In the past few decades, though, hed mostly run fromangry fathers whod found him where they felt he should not...”

“Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.”

“Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]”

“He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“I could not think without writing.”