Dustin

“Our females would have pulled you out of there and ripped your skin off by now," said Moon.

"And that's why we can't be friends," Stone concluded.”
― Martha Wells, The Edge of Worlds

“Yet we ought to kill someone!' said the gentleman, immediately reverting to his former subject. 'I have been quite out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“It's not going to make a very good story, in the annals of my time as sister queen.” She quoted dryly, “‘Then her consort jumped up and knocked the foreign queen unconscious with a kettle.”
― Martha Wells, The Serpent Sea

“There is no temptation from outside the heart.”
― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane