“Come on, don't look so serious. It's not like it's a Death Note.”

“Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.”

“We eventually come to a one-story house that looks as though it's on its way to becoming one with the forest surrounding it. "Seriously?"Mom looks at me with a glance that says so much.Be quiet, for one thing.Get out, for another.Mind your manners is surely in there.And last but not least, This is freaking crazy.”

“The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're— pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true— ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.”

“But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death.Anything.Something.Nothing.”

“Someone started taking notes, Steve said, 'You don't need to takes notes. If it's important, you'll remember it'.”