"Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity."
- Kate Griffin
"There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still human."
"When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's a..."
"You know how it is -- you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself 'is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching BBC 4?"
"A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that."
"Make me a shadow on the wall."
"Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged."
"We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!"
"Where there is life, there will be magic; the one generates the other."
"...for life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don't even notice we're living."