- The Grey Cat: I'd like to see anyone, prophet, God or king, persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time.
- Richard Madoc: You can't force a character to do something just because it's easier for you as a writer. The character has to come first. Everything else follows. Every plot twist, every line of dialogue. Every... fraught, meaningful silence.
- Crow: Justice is a delusion. And wisdom has no place here either. But revelation... that is the province of Dream, if your heart is strong and you are not afraid.
- Golden-Haired Man: Dreams shape the world. Dreams create the world anew every night. Do not dream the world the way it is now. Dream of a new world. A world where we are no longer hunted, no longer prey. A world we rule. If enough of us dream it, it will happen. Dreams shape the world.
- Calliope: But you said that you would free me before you died.
- Erasmus Fry: "Put not your trust in princes," my dear. Nor in an aging author who has never been what you might call a shining example when it came to keeping his word.
- Calliope: But you promised.
- Erasmus Fry: Writers are liars, my dear.