Opera singers hardly ever got to slay dragons.

Molly dove into the pastries. It had been a very long walk from the village and she’d been living on sandwiches and a thermos of cold tea. “These are delicious!” she said, around a mouthful of pastry. “Is learning to cook from first husband,” said Cook. “Then is cooking him. Lousy husband. Second husband is chef, much better.

It was unprecedented! It was madness! It was just begging for cooties!

Start at the point where you need me to hit something with a sword.

By the time they had arrived at Danny’s house, neither of them had come up with a plan. Danny had suggested hoping for a snow day. Wendell had pointed out that it was mid-April. Wendell had then suggested that Danny go to the library and actually read about oceans. This idea was met with the contempt it deserved.

It’s always nice to have someplace to come home to. At best, it’s a place where you can rest and be refreshed by familiar surroundings and well-loved people. At worst, at least you remember why you wanted to go away on adventures in the first place.

Temper is itself an obstacle.

Rabbit, thought Harriet. Giant Lop, I think, which would make sense. Problem is that once they get to this size, they stop wanting to eat just vegetables.

The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn’t make it a world worth living in, your standards were unreasonably high.

A Poncho of Invisibility is not quite as good as a Cloak of Invisibility, but they’re cheaper and easier to sew.