The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural. The power of your mind, and your beauty, even when you've been drugged in the bottom of a boat for two weeks, covered in grime and your face purple and green - your unnatural beauty is natural. Nature is horrifying.

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.

I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.