It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.

It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

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

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least." Briar: "No — if she bit him, he'd die.