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

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. - I'm not sure

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what’s being said around her. Nevermind if a man’s mother and sister showerd them they heard everything while they stictched, he’ll still think a woman who plies her needles saves all her brains for the work. You’re a far better spy hemming sheets than if you clank with daggers.

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.