"Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die."
- Michelle Franklin
"This book is a work of fiction.Actually, it is a work of fiction within a fiction, as the main characters, though real persons in a fictional world, are being depicted in a book which other fictional ..."
"The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy."
"Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens."
"Do what is right and what is good." -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield."
"The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance."
"There are two gradations of cold that are always acceptable: Mild Frost, which is preferable for reading and writing and any other activity done indoors, and Absolute Zero, which is the only temperatu..."
"My doctor has given me as strong an antihistamine as she is allowed to prescribe, but even that does nothing for the itching and swelling. The moment a grain of pollen enters the keep, I begin to toma..."
"Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others."
"The absence of life is not the same as material privation: we will never again see the same soul occupying the same space. The world refers to them as pets, but that is what we do, not really what the..."