Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.