“Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?""Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?""What's the difference?""That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?"-Jacen & Vergere”

“When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free."-Vergere”

“Everything I tell you is a lie."-Vergere”

“If I have to make moves in her, we'll all get bloody. You, go wake up Raithe. Tell him Hari's waiting to see him. He'll come with you.""Hari?" He frowned like he wasn't sure if he was being kidded. "Of what abbey? In what land?""Hari of Do as You're Told in the land of And Shut the Fuck Up.”

“How can he love being... that? Being what Caine is?""Because he's an asshole," she says. "You must have noticed.”

“Hobbie: "Have I told you today how much I really, really hate you?" Janson: "Oh, sure, your lips say 'I hate you' but your eyes say—" Hobbie: "That someday I'll murder you in your sleep?”

“There are some who say that Time is itself a hammer; that each slow second marks another tap that makes big rocks into little rocks, waterfalls into canyons, cliffs into beaches.There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see.And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade.They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone.And I name this saying wisdom.”