If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.

Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?", she asked instead. Alanna shook her head. "No, I don't believe you have. As far as I could tell, you never thought I was right.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own. - Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.