Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature.

It's sometimes funny to watch some people doing something the wrong way but doing it confidently. Even more funny, they succeeded.

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

Now, invite me in, before I lose my temperature.’‘Temper, you mean.’‘No, temperature. It’s getting chilly.

Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

When we hear the bird sing, it hears only how to love. (Quand on entend l'oiseau chanter, - Lui n'entend que comment aimer.)

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

I'm good at everything.

How could you not be hopeful if you've got a tree around?

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.