The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?' 'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.