“My great beard. I am his queen, but I will always be his cub as well, and he will always guard me”

“The queen's guards might have been the best of the best, but Dimitri . . . well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was using them all in defense of me.”

“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.”

“If I keep my promises to the Lord, He will always keep His promises to me. He [will] always fulfill His end of the bargain—and much, much more—if I fulfill mine.”

“For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)”