“When empires fall, what becomes of the Queen? Everything will burn, and so will she.”

“I know she’ll hate him. She likes to be the only one, you know. She likes to dream that she’s queen and that when the rest are dead there’ll be no one who can order her to do anything. She said, dear, that she’d burn down the whole place, burn down Goremenghast when she was ruler and she’d live on her own, and I said she was wicked, and she said that everyone was- everyone and everything except rivers, clouds, and some rabbits. She makes me frightened sometimes.”

“When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.”

“There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.”

“Everything started the night I saw the burning man fall from the sky.”

“She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.”