“It's a certainty, but it just might work.”

“Look, this is just the cemetery. It's got bylaws and things! It's not Transylvania! There's just dead people here! That doesn't make it scary, does it? Dead people are people who were living once! You wouldn't be so worked up if there were living people buried here, would you?”

“Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.”

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.”

“They weren't looking at him as if he was their only hope. They were looking at him as if he was their Certainty.”

“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”