“But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn”

“Perhaps this is a dream, said Madam La Vaughn from her chair. Perhaps the whole thing has been nothing but a dream.”

“Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.”

“If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done. ”

“The longer he marched, the more convinced Peter became that things were indeed hopeless and that an elephant was a ridiculous answer to any question- but a particularly ridiculous answer to a question posed by the human heart.”

“That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.”

“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”