He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.

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.

I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.

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.

It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.

I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.