- Sam Wing: Mr. Greene, you'd better get out of here. This is the Knife of Creation, Nuwa made the Mogwai with it, and now, I'm gonna use it to protect them.
- Riley Greene: Sam Wing, your naivity is infinite, but it's charm is not. Lower the knife.
- Elle: We're in the Valley of Jade. Tons of people have spent their lives trying to get here, and look who made it: a super sheltered goody-goody, a highly skilled, brilliant pickpocket and pint-size circus escapee.