"Silas expected all his boys to be some kind of wizard; it was in the family."
Chapter 2

"And then she was gone. Down the stairs two at a time, down to the kitchen to terrorize the stove, which had heard her coming and was desperately trying to light itself before she came through the door."
Chapter 4

"The Heaps' address had previously been: Big Red Door, There and Back Again Row, The Ramblings. Now it appeared to be: Room 16, Corridor 223, East Side."
Chapter 4

"It seems, Princess, that you have somehow been stopping that awful old Necromancer from coming back to the Castle. Just by being there."
Chapter 15

"There was a gray tinge to the Necromancer's skin that spoke of years spent underground in the company of Shades and Shadows. An aura of the Other side still clung to him and filled the room with the smell of overripe mold...