“You think Ivy's a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money.”

“Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.”

“Money costs too much.”

“If you don't think too good, don't think too much.”

“If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.”

“Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!”

“Money often costs too much.”

“She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.”

“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”