All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.

If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.