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

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

Stop judging your life only by the failures.

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.

The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.

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.