"He didn’t think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old."

"When power is gone the memory of power lingers."

"I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear."

"Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind."

"A reminder of what it was to be mortal and so doomed to tread one road only and that one only once...We can never tru…"

"“The Tyrants have cleaned out most of the highway brigands. Just a matter of protecting their own interests. They wan…"

"Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a rive…"

"Devin had never trusted the priests of Eanna in his whole life. They were too shrewd, by far the most subtle of the c…"

"It was true, it was all true. But none of it was the truth."

"Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross."