"Having your head cut off is bad, but it's over quickly at least. Rotting in a dungeon seems a nasty way to spend your life. But it might be better than being set free. If they set me free, and then send me back to the crossroads, it might be worse than dying."
"The First Pages of Ven Polypheme's Journal, pg. 14.

"Don't drink too much of the wind, young Master Polypheme...It's intoxicating; it will get you drunk more easily than you can imagine. And then you will be lost to it, as we are, and have no choice but to chase it over the sea for all your life."
Chapter 2, pg. 35.

"There are creatures in the depths that you could never imagine, and colors you have never seen. Water fairies and nymphs, sea dragons with great hoards of sparkling treasure taken from shipwrecks - there is nothing...