I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

You narrow hope when you define it.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.