“Some men die for lack of lovesome die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon”

“Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.”

“She's magic, Cassandra. A single flower blooming in an endless desert.”

“Lucivar winced. "She guzzled half the flask and it wasn't one of his home brews, it was the concoction you created."Jaenelles eyes widened. You let her drink a gravedigger?No no no, Wilhelmina sai...”

“Daemon clung to Surreal as she flew along the Winds, too weak to argue, too spent to care. His heart, however... His heart held on fiercely to Jaenelle's soft, sighing caress of his name.Everything...”

“She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.”

“One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work prov...”

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”