Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'" Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.