“You think I'm a part of the Magicus Mundi?""You are telling me you're not? That being the new Lilith means nothing? That it's a human thing?""It's the quintessential human thing," Sylvie said. "The ability to say fuck you.”

“I have something to check out. You...guard the truck.""Sylvie," Wright said, "no one wants this truck. I'm broke and on foot, and I don't want this truck.”

“Never underestimate the will of a creature who begins to die at birth.”

“People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.”

“A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to know this as politics, because it plays like the work of one person, but nothing is isolated in history -- certain humans are situations.”

“You're such a prude. It's pathetic."Eesh."What I am is too much of a lady to say what you are.”

“If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.”