Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.

Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.

Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.

Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.