Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.