"I like that kid. She's got a wonderful angry energy. Like she's decided life is crap and we`re all just killing time until we meet a slow and painful death. She is well ahead of the game on that front" Page 36

"The key to life,' said Banecroft, 'is looking and acting like you know exactly what you are doing at all times." Page 172

"Because on a base level, to which none of us admits, we all secretly think it's pretty much done by magic- and on an even deeper level, we all know that you don't question magic with logic, or else the magic might get the hump and stop working" Page 301

"I appreciate you think everything in life should be fixed by you shouting at it, but sadly that is not the case." Page 304

"Sadly, such is human nature that peace is a rarely achieved ideal." Page 326