Yvaine happens to think that 'sane' is another, far more diplomatic, word for 'terribly boring.'

"It is a wonder you survived at all," given what he is he must have felt terribly suffocated - the very idea of it makes her shiver. A place where magic only dares to come close every few years.

"You are tilting your wrist too far down," she murmurs absently, watching the ripples with a vague sort of interest.