“They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.”

“They'd tried, him and Snow. They'd tried and they'd failed, and that felt so much better than not having tried at all.”

“Brightly woven, Diar,' Aileron said. And then dazzled them all with the warmth of his smile.”

“The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE.If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy,Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'EmI Will NEVER Let Them Go. ”

“George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with”

“I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.”