"Cruelty walked the Warrens holding hands with poverty and rage."

"“What do you want? Why am I here?” Rat asked. “Ah, petulance and philosophy all bound up in one.”"

"It wouldn’t be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat."

"You aren’t making art, you’re making corpses. Dead is dead."

"A solicitor is a man who does worse things within the law than most crooks do outside it."

"You’re either being terrifically subtle or making no sense at all."

"It may be beyond your comprehension, but I can hold power without using it."

"See, you get caught up in the past and you become useless to the present."

"Agon wondered what god Cenaria had offended to deserve such a king."

"So he wasn’t dead. That was probably supposed to be a good thing."