Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. —Luthe

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?