“Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.”

“The politics of wizardry were either very simple, and resolved by someone ceasing to breathe, or as complex as one ball of yarn in a room with three bright-eyed little kittens.”

“As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”

“O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!My tables, — meet it is I set it down,   115That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;At least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark:  [Writing.So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;”

“Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way.”

“Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.”