A high-handed air of command was one of the first symptoms of increasing power-hunger. - Esther Friesner

Amanda gave him the freeze, too. The blue demon hesitated, unsure of whether this snub was a rejection of his leadership or his dubious social standing. There were only a few demons in Debrett’s.

Pigs possess a certain native intelligence and common sense by and large missing from our greater poets. When despair lays its clammy paws across their fevered porcine brows, they do not slump about composing sonnets; they take action.

Possession was nine-tenths of the law, and the stray tenth was self-possession.