Trains are great dirty smoky things,' said Will. 'You won't like it.' Tessa was unmoved. 'I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?' 'I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it.' 'But think how entertaining for sightseers,' said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

Dear God, woman,'said Will. 'Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?

[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. 'A miracle,' he said. 'You got him to speak.'Just to shout at me, really,' said Tessa. 'Not quite loaves and fishes.

Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?'I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made.