“And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.”

“For every victory there is a price.”

“Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness”

“I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned.”

“Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.”

“I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower”

“If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.”