“You," I surmised, and gestured round. "Thank you.""No," he denied. His pale hair floated out from beneath his cap in a halo as he shook his head. "But I assisted. Thank you for bathing. It makes my...”

“One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.”

“I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.”

“The days we shared I alone would remember now.I suddenly felt less real.”

“Surprise!-FitzChivalry”

“He shook his head pityingly. This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. ...”

“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.”