“The world's full of men like him. They just have different names, different reasons to hurt folks.”

“The world is different, but folks are the same, huh?”

“You’re not really afraid you’ll hurt him. You’re afraid because you believe it was wrong even to think it. But having a thought, even an awful one, is different from acting on it. All the difference in the world.”

“There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.”

“You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it’s only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body’s a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It’s wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.”

“The world is full of liars of different humours.”