- Paladin: If there were no such thing as duty, if there were only wishes, I would wish away every kingdom in the world but this one, and I would never go back.
- Princess Alisna Sarafina: How should I be expected to fathom the motives of American males? They're savages.
- Princess Alisna Sarafina: How to sit? Yes, it takes years of practice to learn how to sit like a wax dummy.