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

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

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