Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.

Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.

I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and using it as I saw fit, everything else be damned. There was power to be had in hatred, too, in anger and in lust, in selfishness and in pride. And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.