Every now and then, when a book's finished (or sometimes when it's near being finished and I just can't wait), for my own amusement I do a list of my ten favorite lines from it. Sometimes they're my favorites because I find them funny, sometimes just because of the circumstances that precipitate them.

Just to make you all slightly crazy, I thought I'd share my list from Wizards at War. It's in the format of a Dave Letterman countdown. (And don't ask for specific explanations, because you're not going to get any.)

DD'S TEN FAVORITE LINES FROM "WIZARDS AT WAR"


(10) "Where other species are involved, I think as soon as we’re old enough to ask, we’re old enough to find out."

(9) "If we’ve got any guts at all, a real annoyed expression."

(8) "You really do want to become more than just good friends, don’t you?"

(7) "'Destiny.' Half the time the word’s just code for ‘what someone else wants you to do without asking any inconvenient questions.'"

(6) "You didn’t think I came all that way just to see you, did you?"

(5) “Deliverer of punches in the nose, and ruthless punisher of those who don’t cut her some slack.”

(4) Oh, well, if you’re going to believe things cats say about dogs…

(3) "You mean we should tell her that being hot on Ronan is actually being hot on both a cranky Celto-Goth hunk and a senior Power-that-Is who spent most of the last ten years living on Earth while wearing a macaw costume?"

(2) "I have here a new bar of Valrhona Caraïbe single-estate Grand Cru."

And the Number One favorite line from the entire book:

(1) "Oops."