When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.

King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’ hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden’s usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn’t growing a brain.

I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

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.