My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.

Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins and escaped to safety. I had even killed something that could have been either a dragon or a demon, depending on your point of view. But there in that room was the first time I actually felt like any sort of hero. If you are looking for a reason for the man I would eventually become, if you are looking for a beginning, look there.

You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.