A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.

Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.

I think I’ll just go take a shower,” I said. It wasn’t until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I’d just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.

A king who trusts no man is weak.

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.