I must warn you, my story isn’t a pretty one: abductions, time-traveling dragons, the Order of the Black Fez, highly verbal cats, a secret invisible city, condescending robots (condescending means they talk to you like you’re an Idiot; wait, is it condescending of me to explain what condescending means?), and that’s just for starters. —Willa Snap

Never mess with the Fez.” —Heather Peaceout, Black Fez, Second Order

You’d be surprised what an eleven-year-old can get away with.” —Tuppence

Do not stare directly into his eyes!” she warned, in an accent I couldn’t place.“Why not?” I said, but she was already too late. I was staring directly into his eyes too.“Because they are dreamy, and endless, and magical. And then when you learn what a terrible boy he is, your heart will turn into a black husk of doom.”I blinked off the spell of the boy’s eyes.“Wait, what?” —Nimet Simit and Willa Snap, conversing on the power of Ravenlock Sward's eyes.

Just a cat! Just a cat! I am the stealer of breaths, the walker of shadows, the keeper of nine lives.” —the Magnificent Lady Grayson of the Silky White Underbelly, or Just Grayson for Short

History is always older. —Black Fez axiom