“Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great. You have no power over me”

“Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!”

“Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”

“Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.”

“En alguna parte al borde de tu imaginaciónhay un LaberintoSe tuerce y gira como malvados pensamientos, y nadie... ningún hombre, mujer o niño...ha alcanzado nunca el centro. Allí, dentro de las paredes de la Ciudad de los Goblins,está el castillo de Jareth, el rey de los goblins. Los Goblins son asquerosas criaturitascuyo mayor deleite es robar bebésy convertirlos en goblins. Pero esto solo puede ocurrirsi tú lo deseas. Debes pronunciar las palabras adecuadaspara que el deseo se convierta en realidad. "Deseo que los goblins vengany se te lleven ahora mismo" son las palabras correctas. Cuando los Goblins las oigan,vendrán... y vinieron”

“Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions. ”

“Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for.”