“[..]I reckon responsible behaviour is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”

“I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”

“I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly.He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?”

“The only way to get something to turn up when you need it is to need it to turn up.”

“(...) or there will be a reckoning!”

“But this didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”

“That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.”