“Oh Julie, wouldnt I know if you were dead? Wouldnt I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?”

“Look at me! I screeched. Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! Youre not questioning me now, this isnt your work, Im not an enemy agent spewing wireless code!...”

“Theres glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”

“Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.”

“Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headles...”

“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too.”

“I was still excited. Big or small, elephants are elephants, after all. Just before we mounted, when I was sure no one could see me, I quickly kissed the shoulder of my beast and murmured, 'Hey, swe...”

“At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.”

“A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash ... Elephants have their legs thickened to...”

“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with trave...”

“I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My powers aren't winning me a slot on the Cartoon Network anytime soon... except as a comic relief. Gh...”

“To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.”

“Hippos are the very definition of Disney cute. There is no way you could look at a big, fat, squishy, huggable hippo and not think, "Id she could talk like a human, she would sound just like Jada P...”