“You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.”

“I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.”

“Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.”

“Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins, but there's no such thing as what might have been. That's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind”

“People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.”

“In the past, Pracilla had always thought that the smarter and more successful you were, the more you didn't need other people, the more you could do it all yourself. Pracilla had never asked anyone for anything. Now she was starting to think differently. Maybe the smarter you were, the sooner you recognised you were in trouble and asked for help.”

“When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.”