"What am I always telling you, big girl? Never bet on anything except human stupidity."

"Kings need jugglers, jugglers don’t need kings…"

"When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left."

"“She’s a lady,” I says, “for all she’s a Portygee, and you’re no more a gentleman than that monkey in your mango tree…"

"But that instant, that particular recognition, remains indelible. Some memories do come to live with you for good and…"

"Sometimes, in those nights when the dreams and memories I cannot always tell apart anymore keep me awake, I try to im…"

"We stared at each other in silence for some while, and then I asked him, most politely, “What are you?” “What I need …"

"So they believe, and they take poorly to having it named nonsense. Which I am very nearly sure it is."

"Didn’t listen, did he? They never do. That’s the nature of a Goro. Just as not wanting to know things is the nature o…"

"The Unicorn Sonata … tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes — and o…"