Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side.

The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

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

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.