“You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.”

“It's the sort of hum that makes you feel that you're the actual ground lying under the sky, a blue hum that's all above and around you, but if you think about it too hard it will get too loud or big, and make you feel no more than just a speck.”

“The mind is powerful, and you have more control than you think.”

“Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.”

“Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person, not only changed, but for the better”

“But it’s still a big fight to get the work you’re really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, it’s a fucking scam of a magic trick.”