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

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.

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

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

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.