I have some questions about betrayal,” I said. “Think about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and says he has dinner plans with you, goes off with a beautiful woman, saying he’ll be back directly, then makes you wait half an hour because he’s kissing the woman in the alley. Is that betrayal?” “Oh, Lord.” Eldric tossed back his wine.

How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.