Dorian

“Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life

“Busy old fool, unruly Sophie”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“Funny the way it was never enough to swear and promise just the once. You seemed to have to rethink and repromise every time the subject came up.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Crown of Dalemark

“…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign