“The world was floods above and fire below”

“Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.”

“There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”

“I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness.”

“Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.”

“And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.”

“It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?”