“I know exactly who you are. I took a step forward, and another, until I was standing right in front of him. Then my words turned to ice. You are the selfish, spineless son of a king who is too afra...”

“I told you not to trust a wolf, he continued. His words dripped like honeyed venom. Because it would only ever want to break you. Darren let out a small, harsh laugh. Havent you figured it out yet?...”

“Im not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.”

“That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.”

“All of sudden I cared what someone thought of me. Because we are friends. And making you miserable and angry makes me miserable and angry. I dont want to be the person to make you mad or cry, Ryiah...”

“I dont need another adversity builds character speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Wheres your adversity?Darren raised a brow. Im looking at it.”

“I know exactly who you are. I took a step forward, and another, until I was standing right in front of him. Then my words turned to ice. You are the selfish, spineless son of a king who is too afra...”

“I told you not to trust a wolf, he continued. His words dripped like honeyed venom. Because it would only ever want to break you. Darren let out a small, harsh laugh. Havent you figured it out yet?...”

“Im not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“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.”