Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.