Claire Fayers

“They say there are three kinds of people in the world: those who listen to stories, those who tell them, and those who make them.”

“What, everyone you know has been kidnapped by pirates and forced to chop octopus in a kitchen that smells like a whale's stomach?""Quite a lot of them, yes," said Trudi, who appeared to be one of those people who'd heard of sarcasm but thought it was some sort of exotic fruit like a pineapple.”