Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enough to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.

I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!