“Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.”
“The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.”
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
“None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.”
“The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.”
“Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.”