We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.

Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Celi, call Nom back and tell him of my need for purple!

... until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud. The sound broke the game. Peder looked at her. He reached out, and she thought he meant to grab her straw or perhaps yank her hair as he used to when they were little. But her put his hand behind her head and, leaning forward, pulled her face to his. He kissed her. One long, slow kiss.

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?