
I'm already a monster!" she shrieked.
"No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted.

The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

They're Hive Monks,' said Nova.

ran on blindly into the blind dark.

He said his name was Kobi Chen-Tulsi. He said, "Tell Threnody Noon that the Prells are going to attack Grand Central." - The Crystal Horizon

Friends don't leave friends behind to wash dishes for yetis!

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

That's impossible,' said Fever, Engineerishly.

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

I have had it with these dumb cakes on this dumb spaceship!

Outside, Melliphant's ear flattened itself against the wood of the door like a pale slug.

You can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.

It will be all right, Tom. Wherever we go now, whatever becomes of us, we'll be together, and it will all be all right.

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

Uncle knows best.

All it wants is to explode.'
'Nice to have an ambition in life, I suppose.