“Long are the lives of elves' he said.Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.”

“To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.”

“And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.”

“In the kitchen, Chub clung to the wall, made no sound whatsoever, but his mouth opened and closed, opened and closed, as he told himself, kept telling himself, that life was material, everything was material - you just had to live long enough to see how to use it.”

“There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.”

“If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.”

“Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.”