Deatheguard

“My mother brought me up to be respectable,” she said. “She never let me near the scullery, or the kitchen either.”
“I don’t believe this!” Peter said. “Why is it respectable not to know how to do things? Is it respectable to light a fire with a bar of soap?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“All I wanted to do was sit down and read a book, she thought, and I come home to a flood!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“My mother says that laundry breeds if you don’t wash it.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Charmain disliked blood almost as much as she disliked earthworms.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways