They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.

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

Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.