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

A quaint conceit, don't you think?

When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.