Deatheguard

“Er... did you hear us, dear?" Mrs. Baker said anxiously.
"No," Charmain said with her mouth full. "What?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“She hadn’t even said that she loved books more than anything else in the world, although this was perfectly true.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Travelling through thick woods with a troop of goblins is not unlike a nature hike with a group of grumpy toddlers with weapons.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nine Goblins

“It was closely printed in long paragraphs that mostly seemed to begin, “If we extrapolate from our findings in my earlier work, we find ourselves ready to approach an extension of the paratypical phenomenology…” No, Charmain thought. I don’t think we are ready.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways