“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.”

“The river will take us where we need to go. To the End of the World.”“Great,” Puck said, grinning and rubbing his hands. “Sounds easy enough. Let’s just hope we don’t fall off the edge.”

“Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.”

“so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world”

“And now your dead inside, still you wonder why, when your on the edge and falling off, its all over, for you”

“I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on"Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.”