Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―