The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.

How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way