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―

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

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

The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.