“Leadership begins when you get out of the grandstands and into the game.”

“Just when you think you're in the cat-bird's seat, the Angel of Death calls "dibs" on shotgun.”

“when God is the captain of your ship, your future looks a whole lot brighter than your past!”

“Why?" he asked instead. "Why do such things when my death would have benefited you far more?" Yhalen bent over his knees, resting forehead on his forearm, perhaps not willing to answer, or not able to, strange creature that he was. "Is that the way your people think?" he asked finally, as he turned his head to peer up at Bloodraven through the thick fall of the hair around his face. "That death is more beneficial than life?”

“Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.”

“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”

“I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!”