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He had given her too much. He had given her everything.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

The last young lady I met stabbed me. You know I'm cursed when it comes to women.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support.

A friend. Cery's shoulders drooped. Closing his eyes, he let out a long sigh.

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

The right rumour in the right ears can kill the emperor, as they say.

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

Friendship? What friendship? I lust after him and he rightly ignores it!

People and land, they're the same, his father used to say. Neglect one and the other suffers eventually.

There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation, Tessia knew. Not if you did it properly.

Cold, truthful common sense was harder to like than warm, hopeful generosity.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.
- Tayend

Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.
Sonea: I love you too.

But right now it's a friend's love.

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.

Jayan found teaching both frustrating and rewarding. It depended on the apprentice. Some were attentive and talented. Some were not.

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Achati chuckled. You may be surprised. Some might come in the hopes of being snatched away to a secret place ruled by exotic women.

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.

The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking

I don't have any specific plans to return to the 'Age of the Five.' If I do, it won't be a sequel.

Your supposed to drink wine, my friend, not breathe it.