'Young man,' said Gladys, 'is everyone in your world like you?'

'No,' he said. 'Most of them are taller.'

'I meant,' said Gladys, 'are they all so immoral - or do I mean amoral?'

'Well,' Tod said, 'my father's like me, and my uncle's viler. But my cousin and at least two of my brothers-in-law are quite saintly really. Why?'

'Because,' she said, 'I expect to fit in quite well.

A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

This was another thing about Zillah that irritated Tod. She was so plumb ignorant of magework. It was almost as if she refused to learn on purpose, and possibly encouraged Marcus to make a noise so that she could leave. He allowed that this was partly due to the lack of confidence - someone, way back in Zillah's history, has evidently sapped her confidence pretty badly - but he also suspected that it was due to arrogance. In some secret place in her mind, Zillah felt that she has no need to learn.

A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

Is this drink toffee or kea, or neither?

Roz, A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

He had tried to conjecture why in hellspoke's name the law required him to come to this armpit of the universe. It was a very archaic law. The only modern justification that he had been able to come up with was that all this adversity was supposed to toughen his soul. To Tod's mind you did not make a soul tough by walking all over it: you just made dents.

A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones