"When your process of extermination begins, let our deaths be as swift and painless as you can conveniently make them."

“I know what love is. There was a happy time when I didn't, but bitter experience has taught me.”

“Against our wills, papa—against our wills!”

“What, never? / No, never! / What, never? / Well, hardly ever!”

“Man is nature's sole mistake.”

“Some word that teems with hidden meaning, like "Basingstoke". It might recall me to my saner self. For, after all, I am only Mad Margaret! Daft Meg! Poor Meg! He! he! he!”

“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.”