“When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.”

“Excruciating agony makes me cranky.”

“A crossbow? Pigeon asked.I left my battle-ax in my other jeans, the man said.”

“I like pancakes.”

“Could you just call me Pigeon? he asked the teacher when she read his name.Does your mother call you Pigeon?No.Then to me you are Paul....Nathan Sutter, the teacher read.My mother never calls me Na...”

“Are you her boyfriend?...No, Im her fianc. Nate said.Weve been promised to each other since birth, Summer added.Our wedding isnt until March.”

“Although her heart had been dead for years, she clasped her hands over her breast to protect what rested underneath.”

“Forgive my brother," Camira apologized. "We don't normally let him out of his cage when guests are present.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”