“Too proud to change your name in exchange for a job.""Not proud, sir," said Runnel. "But Runnel of Farzibeck won't die here to have a waterless coward rise in his place.”

“He pulled out a single half-blackened disc of bronze. "Money," he said. "You get it by working, and then you trade it for things you want.""But it's so small," said Runnel."So's your wit," said the man, and turned away.”

“A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.”

“She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children.” “Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew.” “They were delicious.”

“I'm not a liar, sir,' she said."'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.”

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”

“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”