“...if you spent all your time being protected, you never got to find out anything new.”

“Hm. Didnt you use to be a lot smaller?Yes, said Jinx. Because I used to be six.”

“Im not sure how people drink out of skulls, Jinx added. Calvin had too many holes in him to make a good cup.”

“I was banished, said Reven proudly.What for? Elfwyn pressed.The king said I was anathema.He doesnt like athemas?Anathema means, like, accursed, said Jinx. Probably it was for robbing people.”

“Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?”“Yes,” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.”

“I was banished,” said Reven proudly.“What for?” Elfwyn pressed.“The king said I was anathema.”“He doesn’t like athemas?”“Anathema means, like, accursed,” said Jinx. “Probably it was for robbing peo...”

“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.”

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deepe...”

“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”