“And what they're doing could be called kissing but it's more like sword fighting with tongues.”
“Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own.”
“IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.”
“Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.”
“Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.”
“Sometimes...a person is up against more than they can handle. And sometimes a person loses, no matter what they're fighting for.”