“The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.”

“She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.”

“Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything.”

“The battle of the sexes and you're winning hands down.”

“Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.”

“Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!”

“Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.”

“Black hair spilling, blue eyes piercing. Enchanted by the lies that he was singing.”

“You can never get enough of adventure”

“I do not agree with you," insisted Georyn. "Must a man then live always as his fellows live, and never reach beyond? There is more to knowledge than you dream of, Terwyn, and if it lies in some enc...”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”