“I am the Disreputable Dog. Or Disreputable Bitch, if you want to get technical. When are we going for a walk?”

—  Garth Nix

Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), p. 115.

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