You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

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.

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!" Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say." — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.

Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.