“If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme”

“You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that? My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine?" "And well she should have," Bones agreed. "She's my Kitten, and no one else's”

“I should have fought for you, Clara, even if I would have had to fight you to fight for you. I should have never let you go.”

“I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.”

“If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?”

“I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it.”