Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.

You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it’s only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body’s a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It’s wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.

I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.