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

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

“I was madder than a Keebler elf getting demoted to fudge-packer.”

“… The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!”

“Who knew an elf queen could be so vicious!”

“Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.”

“Hearth signed, 'is it talking? I don't read sword lips.'"
'what is he saying?' Jack asked. 'I don't read elf hands”

“[S]elf-organization [is] the appearance of structure or pattern without an external agent imposing it.”

“Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?”

“On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.”