The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men armed to the teeth, and sharing a horse with a wounded man. At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases