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Useless, perhaps, but nonetheless, we do speak of it. And some of us still dream of it. Just as some of us still dream of flying, and killing our own meat, and battling for mates. Some of us still dream of living. You do not want to sleep, Kalo. You want to die.
Mercor in The Dragon Keeper

The sea was cold, the night was black, and if I'd had any sense, I'd have wished myself elsewhere; but there is something in a boy that takes the mundanely difficult and unpleasant and turns it into a personal challenge and an adventure.

narrator in Assassin's Apprentice

The protection of the good god had once stood between all darkness and me. I had thought it a fortress wall; it had been a lace curtain.
narrator in Forest Mage

Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the world is no more than a shadow of a tree cast across the snow. It will change as the sun moves, be swallowed in the night, sway with the wind and when the smooth snow vanishes, it will lie distorted upon the uneven earth. But the tree continues to be.
Kettricken in Royal Assassin

But there it is; sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen. That night I felt we were both.
narrator in Assassin's Apprentice

For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgement to someone else, to saying to them, 'You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.'
narrator in Assassin's Apprentice

If I know your father, he'll face up to it square and do what's right. But Eda only knows what he'll think is the right thing to do. Probably whatever hurts the most.
Burrich in Assassin's Apprentice

I watch him come, stepping with elven grace, hooves entering and leaving the stream without so much as a splash.
Slanting sunlight through the branches gleams his flanks, polishes his high cheekbones, is swallowed in the darkness of his eyes. When he moves his head, light ricochets off his horns. I do not move or speak.
His cloven hooves cut deep into the moss, scoring the rich earth below the green carpet. It is no longer the friend of my childhood who stands there, but the forest god, the hooved and horned one beholding an intruder in his domain.
narrator in Cloven Hooves

Shackles of velvet, and manacles of lace, dear cousin, can bind a woman as effectively as those of cold iron.
Epiny in Shaman's Crossing

Truth is often much larger than facts.
Narrator in Assassin's Quest

Well, whatever you decide to do, let me know this time, will you? A man should know where his friends are.
Kesey in Renegade's Magic

But in battle, the man who turns away becomes the prey. No one can stop because his arms are weary or his legs shake with strain. It only stops when your enemy is dead and you are still alive.
Soldier´s Boy in Renegade's Magic

Here's to irresponsible men who give into their passions. So women can claim it was none of their doing.
Amber in The Mad Ship

I am simply saying that you should not lock your dreams onto a child or a man. Who loves you or who you love is not as significant as who you are. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.
Wintrow in Ship of Destiny

No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.
Fitz in Assassin's Quest