Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.