"But she'd been nearly normal for two years now, making her own way in the real world, never remembering the future at all... Perhaps she had just dreamed things (but even dreams could be real...)." Page 8

"Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvelous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken." Page 15

"He is...let me see...there isn't an entirely appropriate human word, so... let's settle for...dead. Yes. He is dead." Page 76

"She'd been making good progress, though. She could go for days now without feeling anything other than entirely human." Page 77

"Just 'ho, ho, ho' will do. Don't say, 'Cower, brief mortals' unless you want them to grow up to be moneylenders or some such." Page 99

"Even gods have to move with the times, am I right? He was probably quite different thousands...