It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

‎Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a glade in the woods with a few close friends and get it done?" Halt hesitated. "Well, no...of course not." As a matter of fact, that was exactly what he had thought. A simple ceremony, a few friends, some food and drink and then he and Pauline would be a couple. But he felt that it might not be wise to admit that right now.

There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.

Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.