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

You'll be with me, won't you?" "indeed." "Then what could go wrong?" Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods.

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.

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

If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.