“It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.”
“Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look." I hoped he'd come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.”
“It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.”
“If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.”
“Nothing is so tiresome as being insincere.”
“A disobedient child is one who blinks of his own volition, without being told to or even looked at. That’s usually when I get out the Behavior Cloth (a blindfold).”