[Nicodemus] ‘Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] ‘You can ask,’ she said with her usual calmness, ‘but the clerics haven’t developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.

You spoke to Nicodemus?’ Vivian asked.[Francesca] ‘We did.’V: ‘And he trusts you?’F: ‘As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets.

[Francesca] ‘You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.’His eyebrows furrowed in confusion.’You’re a few colors shy of a rainbow?’ she offered. ‘Not pulling a full wagon? Knitting with only one needle? All foam...

All my life, I’ve been trying to fill an emptiness inside. But that emptiness…I’ve built myself around it. Filling it in would be like filling in the empty space within a cathedral.