The Adventures of Dod

"Our safety?  My little finger!  I think there's a lot they're not saying." 

 "...my aunt is always saying that a woman's first right is to change her mind as many times as she wants, and a man's first duty is to accept it."

"Why be mad when you can choose to be happy?" 

"Not so fast.  I know you. You're full of tricks. The moment I turn my back, you'll disappear for another three months." 

"Please, please, please be alive."

 "If The Dread is among us, then we must act normal.  Any suspicious behavior would certainly lead to a swift and fatal meeting with him!"

 "It's the best in all of us, the grand dream, the lingering hope of what my family trusts can one day become everyone's inheritance."

"Less tads, less swappers....We're down to forty-six, and only three of them are aided by swappers. It's tragic. I suppose we may live to see the day when they'll all be a thing of the past."

“Too much truth in the hands of a liar is more dangerous than a world of lies told to the truthful. When people like The Dread are mostly honest, they’re more deadly.”

"I mean--boingy-boing--you single-handedly caught The Dread.  Why would you suddenly turn foul on us?  How stupid can they be?" 

"Fourteen? You're hardly weaned. Where's your mother? I should expect she is worried stiff that you've escaped your crib....Perhaps you've lost your way..."

 "I wouldn't quit the Coosings!  Sawb really stretched when he appointed me last year--my family, you know; we're not chauss or toting gold."

 "Oh--that Dod."

"You're psychic! I knew it!"

 "You can't tell a soul....I was--uh--someplace I shouldn't have been, and I may have heard--"

"My goodness, son!  The word's not Dossum!" 

"Zerny's pets....He's taken to a hobby, but someth'n smudged 'em all out."

 "Ludicrous!  Are you going to let me out, or not?"

 "Yes, that's very true--The Dread--my goodness, I hate thinking of The Dread."

"No worries, honey.  I can keep up with you if you help me."