“It's an either/or world now.”

“Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting!”

“But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.”

“It's the lady, then," he murmured.”

“The world is large, dear Will, and we, no matter how much we would like to pretend otherwise, we are quite small.”

“Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.”

“It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!”