“One must gauge one's trust carefully.”

“It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.”

“It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you”

“To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it”

“There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme”

“It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others”

“Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland”