Well. I am not afraid. But to protect you, Katerina, I will be discreet." Plain Kate considered a cat's idea of discretion, and was frightened.

Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend."The traditional thing, " he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack.

I am not sure I can.""Become sure, " said the cat, his eyes flashing green in the firelight. "Once you leap on a boar's back, you can't sheath your claws.

Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy.

Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD, ’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD?

They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.

The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle, but she pushed on as fast as she could.

Be brave. Things will find their shape.

At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices.

They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art.

I think it will help people have a better work-life balance, that's really important - that's the centre ground for me, it's the issues people care about in their lives.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

Beginnings are easy, the thing is to finish the race