The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.