Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.

Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

Ozorne, my precious, where are you? - Rikash Moonsword

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

He's just rather more lively than most fossils.

Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked it. - Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.