“Damn the human stomach, this fat betrayor of ideals”

“Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.”

“It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.”

“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”

“I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.”

“. . . this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.”

“...and Ama Clutch was gone, and the overly subordinate pillowcase took a small spill of human juice from the edge of her slackened mouth.”