Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

Over his own dark Cealdish beard. "Nothing like your marvelous facebear.

What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.

“I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time.” “This was nothing... Once I jumped off a roof.”

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.