“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”

“I don't like lollipops.”

“A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.”

“Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.”

“I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?”

“this was business.”

“Yet while Owllwin was arrogant, he was also humble enough to admit when he had made a mistake. Perhaps it was his sheer clumsiness that kept him so humble: the first time he spoke to Cricket was in...”

“He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...”

“His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence.”