“Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!”

“Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!”

“I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.”

“Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.”

“Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.”

“Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.”

“Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.”