"'So, my sister. This is a good time for you. Are you pleased?'
'Pleased, oh my Lord of Destruction? I am neither pleased nor displeased. I simply am.'
'Oh. This won't last much longer. Already the deaths are getting fewer...'
'Plagues come and go.'
'Yes. And then it's my turn.'
Destruction talking to Despair, (Ch. 1, p. 22)

"'And I suppose you had nothing to do with my recent troubles?'
'Your little affair, and its messy ending? I hate to disappoint you Dream, but you managed to screw that one up all on your own. Although I did find it extremely amusing.'"
Dream talking to Desire, (Ch. 2, p. 19)

"'But I did okay, didn't I? I mean I got, what, fifteen thousand years. That's pretty good. Isn't it? I lived a pretty long time.'
'You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a...