“I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.”

“One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.”

“I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out or own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometimes we can ask God to help...”

“Caines a guy who needs to win. He needs to win before he poofs. Or he needs to win before I poof. The point is, hes not going to just accept us freeing all these kids from Coates and taking over Pe...”

“Caine has Drake and Orc, Panda and Chaz, and I hear Mallet has made peace with him. And maybe a half dozen other guys.Are you afraid of them? Astrid asked him.Yeah, Astrid, I am.Okay, she said. But...”

“Who am I? Im the Breeze, bitch!”

“He took my family, Adamat said. Blackmailed me, and he still has my wife and oldest son. I want to get them back, and then kill him slowly.A lot of violence planned, for a family man, the eunuch sa...”

“A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing," Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need...”

“They're power-hungry, the mundane said of the magical people. They're immoral, people said, and they're scary. Playing with the dark arts could plunge me into evil. I'd be pulled toward depravity. ...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“Nor, perhaps, will it fail to be eventually perceived, that behind those forms and usages, as it were, he sometimes masked himself; incidentally making use of them for other and more private ends t...”

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”

“Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hard...”