“I dislike boats," Ragnor observed, looking around. "I get vilely seasick." The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it.”

“I imagine that it will not be easy to persuade Mortmain into a bonnet," Magnus observed. "Though the color would be fetching on him."
Henry burst into laughter. "Very droll, Mr. Bane."
"Please, call me Magnus."
"I shall!”

“I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.”

“I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through.
Looking into their eyes I see them running too.”

“I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again…”

“People are going to dislike you if you make a decision, even if it turns out to be the right one.”

“Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, “That were to consider it too curiously.””

“I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.”

“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ”

“I guess that is my biggest fear, sort of worrying about the fact that I keep getting more insecure as time goes on rather than feeling more grand with each turn. I feel more and more afraid. When I get my picture taken, I'm convinced it's because I must look terrible and they're going to put it in US Weekly as a joke.”