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

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

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

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!