How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning. “What?” “Smile so much.” “Oh, I’m just a happy person.

Everyone is either happy or dead.

You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately. something happens to us during the Shaod—apparently the flesh of a dead man doesn't taste too good. Kolo? In fact, it's so violently bitter that no one can keep it down." "It's nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option," Raoden said dryly