Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

Timing is a sensitive thing.

He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself

If I have not been completely honest with you, it is only because I know a great deal of things that you do not want to know. I am going to ask that you trust me when I tell you I am trying to make things better. It is an extremely delicate balance and there are a great many factors involved. The best we can do right now is take everything as it comes, and not to worry ourselves over things that have happened, or things that are to come.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.