“from the poem: MANNEQUINS THAT SWEAT BLACK INK AND NEVER HAVE ANY FUN If you put a twizzler in your ear it looks like your ear is vomiting blood.”

“You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.”

“Am I grave?', he asked. 'I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear.''You look as if you were taking me to a funeral. If that's a grin, your ears are very near together.”

“You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.”

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

“Your face will freeze like that, you know, Kat," Raffin said helpfully to Katsa."Maybe I should rearrange your face, Raff," said Katsa."I should like smaller ears," Raffin offered."Prince Raffin has nice, handsome ears," Helda said, not looking up from her knitting. "As will his children. Your children will have no ears at all, My Lady," she said sternly to Katsa.Katsa stared back at her, flabbergasted."I believe it's more that her ears won't have children," began Raffin, "which, you'll agree, sounds much less—”