Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

That's what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him.