It was very boring. Perhaps it was his job to be boring, Vivian thought, in which case he was very good at his job. - Diana Wynne Jones

"Unprintable things!" I said - only I didn't say that. I really said them.

Ann looked down at him, spread on the bank preparing to go to sleep, and lost her temper. "Then you should go and tell him! You should look after him! He's all alone in this wood, and he's quite small, and he doesn't even know he's not supposed to go out of it. He probably doesn't even know how to work the field to get food. You - you calmly make him up, out of blood and - and nothing, and you expect him to do your dirty work for you, and you don't even tell him the rules! You can't do that to a person!"

Maybe, he said, you should be more careful about whom you let your dog bite. Not I! said Jamal. I am a believer of free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.