“No man is infallible.”

“Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm.”

“What man can hate or love well when he is drugged?”

“It's only water," she said."Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.”

“A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.”

“He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.”

“I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly.""I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper.""Apparently I am.”