Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious.

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

Stop judging your life only by the failures.

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead.

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.