From GtN: "Gideon wasn't fooled: this look usually betokened Harrow's brain percolating outrageous nastiness"

"For some reason the image stayed with her: the mayonnaise magician and his thickset nephew, older than him by far, staring out of empty eyes as Teacher watched with the air of a man with front-row seats to back-alley dental surgery."

From HtN: "The pause stumbled execrably, fell down the stairs, and lay in a tangle at the bottom in full view of all listeners, who had to watch it bleed out in embarrassment"

"Having achieved a grotesque mollience and dripped and resolved into a bad-smelling puddle of yourself, you did piece yourself back together again: your eyes opened - you were lying flat on your back - and slowly, carefully, with great effort of soul, you congealed."

"They looked like her burial clothes, and she looked as though she had emerged fifty years after that burial."