"Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world—which is to say that he held many tr…"

"It was only now that they realized that there is nothing that can really be a preparation for death."

"All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty."

"Marrying her to prove I do not subscribe to an outdated convention of class would be just as foolish as refusing to m…"

"“I don’t need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth,” Selendra said, with wh…"

"What you can't pay back you pay forward."

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

"For all practical purposes, wheat is civilization. It produces what we euphemistically call the staff of life, a staf…"

"Sing thy armes (Bellona) and the man's Whose mighty deeds out-did great Tamberlan's."

"Wild mares' milk nurst him on the mountaines' gorse, Which gave him strength and stomach like a horse; Goats' flesh m…"