“I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.”

“In life, you can learn a lot by simply watching the water.”

“If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you.”

“Child, if you forever hide in the shadows, watching life through a window, you will miss the many lessons learned by simply living.”

“Working in the hotel business I have learned a lot about people. It’s amazing what you can discover about someone by watching them when they don’t know you are watching, especially if they are asleep.”

“Civilization was a dance, and the ancient Wyr were late to the ball. They donned masks and slipped with silent predatory grace into the ballroom. They watched with sharp eyes that glittered deep in the shadows behind their assumed facades, recording and learning the twist and rhythm of the dance, the social mores, when to bow and press their lips to the back of the hand, how to smile and say good evening, please and thank you and yes, I shall take more sugar with my tea.All the while they noted the pulse that fluttered at the base of the dancers' necks, the scents of sweat and the quickened breath.”