“You said the d-word, Owllwin said regretfully. I didnt think you would, or I woulda warned ya. . . . the d-word? Cricket repeated in confusion.Yeah . . . Owllwin paused as if he was glancing around...”

“Owllwin was easiest the most contrary person Cricket had ever known. He was arrogant but humble, cowardly but brave, foolish but wise. He was funny, but sometimes she caught him crying when he was ...”

“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...”

“As if the president gives a crap about demons and what they go through just because her fathers got horns? Morganith returned. She never opens her coward mouth about the quiet oppression the demons...”

“Rigg laughed softly at Lisas deadpan joke, but she halted when she noticed the back of Lisas neck: the factory number had been shaved away, roughly and angrily. Frowning in confusion, Rigg gently r...”

“We live in a world where its feasible that a tiny hobbit can save an entire world, but not a feminine woman. And god help her if shes a woman of color, because thats given as even more inconceivable.”

“Music is a writer's heartbeat.”

“Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life.”

“We encounter truth within.”

“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.”

“Those who work, knows the strength of labour.”

“I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the cove...”

“I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in p...”