An amphibophile is the sort of girl who goes around kissing princes in the hope that one of them will turn into a frog. - Michael Kurland

“I’ve been taught certain things all my life,” she said. “Just as you have. I’m just as much a prisoner of my training and my environment as you are of yours.”
“I never thought that I was,” Carl said.
Alyssaunde took his hand. “Neither did I,” she said.

Any truth," Chester said, "no matter how obscure, or seemingly unimportant, is a piece of the mosaic and a step toward completion.

Good thinking," the tall man agreed. "In this case it's not true, but it is good thinking.