“Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again.""Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?”

“I know, said Peter. Perhaps better than anyone. But you cant stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echos Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adul...”

“If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.”

“All stories are true. But some of them never happened.”

“Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.”

“I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an ...”

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except...”