Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.

She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.

Gee, I wonder who you could be referring to?" Owen said.

"I mean you," Erebus said. "I just did not wish to be rude."

"All you've been is rude." Owen muttered just under a whisper.

"Some minds are more capable than others." Erebus smiled at Hugh.

It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.