- Matthew the Raven: Now's not the time to be fighting, when there's a vortex getting people pregnant and runaway nightmares doing God-knows-what.
- Gilbert: [to Rose] I'm just so impressed. You allowed yourself to be happy for nearly a minute there before inventing some new problems for yourself.
- Gilbert: Oh, good. Because I do love a paradox. Chesterton did too. Take charity for example. Charity usually means one of two things, pardoning an unpardonable act or loving an unlovable person. Or take love. Love's an even better one. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. And hope means hoping even when everything seems hopeless.