“Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment.-Hellhound”

“I knew you'd figure it out," he said. "And I hoped that by the time you figured it out, you would be sufficiently accustomed to the situation for the realization to be less... dispiriting.”

“This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master.”

“We had to go back to the coffeehouse: the Wreck was there. Mel had walked over. Well, I don’t know about walked. He had come over without vehicular assistance anyway.”

“He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.”

“She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was so accustomed to his step, to his bulk, that it took a moment to notice his face; and when she did . . . It was, she thought, rather like the moment it took to realize one had cut one's finger as one stared dumbly at the first drop of blood on the knife-blade. You know it is going to hurt quite a lot in a minute.”

“All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired?I sat very diligently, she said.”