You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny.

For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.

I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run." --Alyss

Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed a weapon capable of destroying all of Boaderland, Wonderland, Morgavia, Unterlan and who knows what else. I call it WILMA, which stands for Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation. It also happens to be the name of one of my former wives, who had to be put down on account of her feisty temper.

Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.