“Each part of your body corresponds with an element, the Maiden explained. Your hair is air. How you toss your head, play with your hair - that is all for air magic. You can command the wind. Arms a...”

“It's an old and honored tradition for war heroes to be promoted to important offices, whether or not they're suited to it”

“It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected”

“Each part of your body corresponds with an element,” the Maiden explained. “Your hair is air. How you toss your head, play with your hair - that is all for air magic. You can command the wind. Arms...”

“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.”

“Advice," Doa Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at sev...”

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”