If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?" "If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try.

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.

When in doubt, shoot the wizard.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.