I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy

Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out.

Being a King sort of sucks," I said. Quentin wrinkled his nose, "So does your outfit." "Blood is in this season.

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.

Well, that’s that, then. We’re all going to die. Charming.