“Tallennar. I knew what it meant. It meant thief. Well, that was all right. Because a thief really was a lot like a wizard.”

“That is for me decide, not you. It is said that only fools stand in the way of a new idea; I trust, magisters, that there are no fools among you.”

“[S]he stepped out into the yard, like a thief in reverse: breaking and exiting. Stealing herself.”

“You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one day, Morgan said something and you laughed, and I remember thinking it was really cool because it meant something. You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.”

“She likes the parts of me that are broken; she likes them the way a thief likes a loose screen.”

“Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible”

“None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.”