“People want incongruous, impossible things.”

“Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.”

“Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.”

“I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.”

“You're beautiful this morning," Archer said, stopping before her, kissing her nose. "You're impossibly sweet in my shirt."That might be but she felt like death. She would gladly make the trade; how blissful it would be to feel impossibly sweet and look like death.”

“This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.”

“There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural. The power of your mind, and your beauty, even when you've been drugged in the bottom of a boat for two weeks, covered in grime and your face purple and green - your unnatural beauty is natural. Nature is horrifying.”