How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.