"But too many people had come to him and Jaldis over the years, asking for magic to fix their lives. He knew of no spe…"

"“I suppose the talisman you gave me will keep people from noticing a full-grown horse?” “I’m not sure,” he said, glad…"

"“Where’d you learn to make coffee like this?…If wizardry ever quits paying, you really will be welcome in my father’s…"

"Loving and hating were so close, two sides of a coin whose name was Need."

"“Why do they call them love-spells, anyway?” he added bitterly. “It isn’t love, you know.” “Maybe because some people…"

"The priests of Agon saw in wizardry what the priests of all the cults of the gods saw: a body of men and women who di…"

"Now they had given their wills to Agon, and it was Agon who acted through them—they could spy upon their benefactors,…"

"From what I understand only the priests of Agon claim to have seen the Great Evils, and then they pretty much seem to…"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"You have to be rich to live forever."