He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.” “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.

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.

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.

Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

He has artistry," he repeated. "Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.