I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

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.

... 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?