The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

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.

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

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

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.