- Bobik: There's an invisible snail of time. And he eats all your nows. The day you see him is the day you die. And he's called Big Liam.
- Shulmay: A privy chute. It's narrow, but steep and moist. We'll slide fast.
- Queen Dagan: Moist is a word for it. I can think of others.
- Shulmay: When I was a girl, I would watch my father punish traitors. He would cleave off their arms and shove them up their asses.
- Queen Dagan: That's nice.
- Queen Dagan: Mmm. And then he would cleave off their asses and shove those up whatever remained. People didn't always get their own asses. Asses were swapped about.
- Queen Dagan: It's bad enough having to walk next to a servant, but you ... I don't mean to offend you here, but you are the lowest variety of human.