Unnatural Creatures

Did you know that our letter A began its life as a drawing of the upside-down head of a bull? The two bits at the bottom that the A stands on, those were originally horns. The pointy top bit was its face and nose.

Do you know what?” he began. He had invented this meaningless question so that he could tell people things and still make it into an enquiry

I loved my monsters.
Where there is a monster, the wise American poet Ogden Nash told us, there is a miracle.

If the gods make people ill, how can Dad cure them?

Why does the kitchen god go and report to Heaven once a year? Is it so I can steal biscuits?

One world he came to was so rational that, to his horror, he found the gods were dead

Thasper scowled up at him. “I want to know. Why does it?”

“Perhaps because you feel happy to see me,” Imperion suggested.

“I’m not happy,” Thasper said.

It was established custom for gods to love mortals

Mankind calls them if-worlds, meaning that they were once the same world as Theare, but split off and went their own way after each doubtful event in history

Here Ock approached. “Every prophecy has a loophole,” he said