“Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?”

“Maybe that's what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”

“I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could
have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer”

“I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long." -Nudge”

“This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.”

“Without a wink of sleep.”

“Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this.

At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later?”

“Life is a winking light in the darkness.”

“What test?" Asked Nudge.
"Max, you're incorruptible."
"Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.”

“Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.”