“Secrets are such hard things to manage whwn you're not the only one who knows.”

“The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.”

“He hated sounding guilty. Terrible things always followed.”

“Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.”

“One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.”

“He had fought wizards (though not because he wished to), battled goblinkin (only because running hadn't been an option at the time), and faced incredible monsters (drat the luck he sometimes had when he thought about it).”

“It takes real planning to organize this kind of chaos.”