“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...”

“Certainly she could never have exchanged pleasantries with anyone. What would there be for them to say anyway? Sorry? Sorry your daughter is dead, Sorry your daughter jumped off the roof of her sch...”

“Oh, sorry. Im not . . . uh . . . interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I?”

“He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi door, slung in his bag, gave a huge film-star wave,...”

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

“1. I think what haunts many people in the world is to lose something they love, something they value, and someone they care for, for me it was my father, I was losing him when I met him. I felt lif...”