“Harrier says the Wild Magic is as annoying as a goat. And the only other Wildmage either of us has ever met kept hitting him with a wooden spoon. Wildmages aren't like, oh - like Kellen and Idalia and Vestakia the Redeemed in The Book of the Light. They're people.' [Tiercel Rolfort]”
“Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty.Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.”
“An English major is like being in a book club that costs $40,000 a year, has only annoying people in it, offers no refreshments at the meetings, and where people actually read the books.”
“Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly.Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.”
“People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.”
“Children are like poems. They're beautiful -- to their creators -- but to others they're just silly and fucking annoying.”