“That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: "Go away, you bunch of boring people."”

“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.”

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.”

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

“I'm going to shoot somebody," Maddie said.
"Sawyer hates when people do that. It's a whole bunch of paperwork.”

“The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.”

“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”

“I was so tired of seeing these stupid, cheerful books about ageing. One of them even has this whole thing in it about how you are going to have the greatest sex of your life in your sixties and seventies. Which is just garbage.I thought about it and realised that there was one circumstance that you could have the best sex of your life in your sixties and seventies. That would be if you had never had sex until you were 60 or 70.”

“When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”

“What about sunrise, what about rain?
What about all the things that you said we were to gain?
What about flowering fields, is there a time?
What about all the dreams that you said was yours and mine?”