... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.

. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.