So, you figure they won't notice you're back?" sneered the marquis. "Just, 'oh look, there's another angel, here, grab a harp and on with the hosannas'?

“You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing …”

“We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what…”

“She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is…”

“I found myself, unbidden, thinking of the holy fools in the old story, the ones…”