You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

He has artistry," he repeated. "Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.