"Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny."

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.

Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.

You have crossbows: Shoot early; shoot often.

Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.

A wise one determines his own fate.