Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.

Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)

There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.

Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.