“Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.”

“Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away. In a sense, they never really stopped happening. Every moment you ever treasured, every friend you ever valued is still there, separated from us only by time; the past is still happening and always will be. It's only we who have moved on.”

“I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.”

“Honor and duty will ride upon my shoulders till the day I die, like the old man of the sea, who once picked up can never be put dow.”

“I love to dance!" she said cheerfully."Sometimes I think the whole world should be put to music and choreographed!""This being the Nightside, someone somewhere is undoubtedly working on that very thing, right now.”

“What am I going to do with all these bodies?" Said Jimmy, just a bit plaintively."I can't keep them, I don't have the cupboard space.”

“No damned thing from the vasty deeps is going to get the better of me in my own home.”