“Everyone is either happy or dead.”

“To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”

“So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—”“Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.”“I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.”

“...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”

“‎"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.”

“The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.”

“Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.”