You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

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

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

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

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

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.

Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.