A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.
If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.
The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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.
The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.