Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't." "I don't understand. Why not?" "I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did..." "But you're the king." "That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that." Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.