The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink!

"Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out." "Something bad might happen..." "Impossible. But possibly something painful."

The Spear in the Other’s heart is the spear in your own: you are he.

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.