“When given a choice between two, choose the third.”

“Size matters not. Inertia, however, is a pain in the butt."-Mander Zuma”

“Remember me as I tried to be, not as I was." ~Urza, The Brother's War”

“The brew was military style "A"—freshly made and scalding, suitable for pouring down on peasants attacking the family castle.”

“Not that you mind the killings! There's plenty of killings in your book, Lord..”

“One of the key things is learning which bits of life you don't need to take seriously. Usually far more than you expect.”

“All that evening Nell sat alone in her bedroom trembling with curious satisfaction. For punishment Eva had been sent to her room without supper and Nell sat listening now to the even, steady sobs far off down the hall. It was dark and on the river shore a night bird tried its note cautiously against the silence. Down in the pantry, the dishes done, Suse and Jessie, dark as night itself, drank coffee by the great stove and mumbled over stories of the old times before the War. Nell fetched her smelling salts and sniffed the frosted stopper of the flowered bottle till the trembling stopped. ("Where The Woodbine Twineth")”