“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”

“That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!”

“When it came down to it and the life-or-death decision had to be made, then it was made by you, because you were the witch. And sometimes it wasn't a decision between a good thing or a bad thing, but a decision between to bad things: no right choices, just... choices.”

“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair. Amazing. To feel you were a tiny living thing, sandwiched between two cliffs of darkness. How could they stand to be alive?”

“Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.”

“The universe was bad enough without people poking it.”

“It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.”