“You humans certainly have your hearts set on being happy, don’t you?”
“What other lost soul has the misfortune to have you as their fairy godfather?”
“Neat' was the highest superlative possible from Burndee and it was not a word that he often used...unless he was describing something he had done. 'Neat'--without even 'very' or 'really' attached to it--was extremely high praise from Burndee.”
“I’m good, but I’m not that good. Unless we steal a baby—” Colin”
“My first choice would be to give you more god children, but that would be far too cruel a thing to do—to them.”
“It almost made him feel sorry for Colin and that was just as unthinkable an estate as marriage.”
“Three is the number of those who do holy work;
Two is the number of those who do lover's work;
One is the number of those who do perfect evil
Or perfect good.”
“My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.”
“The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”
“Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.”
“The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”
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