Paama sat up slowly, moving as cautiously as if facing a lion who had just declared his intention not to pounce, but to have a friendly chat instead. - Karen Lord

One of the advantages of having languages as a hobby is that it can take you quite a while to run out of swear words.

Chaos was a far subtler force than most people realised. It would be so easy to sense if it threw off thunderbolts or sent barely sensed thrummings through the fabric of reality, but it was nothing more than the possible made probable. It did not break or bend any laws of nature or tip the balance of the universe.

Ansige’s outer appearance could be deceptive, but, given enough time, he let everyone know who and what he was.