We’ll fall off that bridge when we cross it. — Guy Gavriel Kay

"Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind."

"He didn’t think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old."

"Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea."

"In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone."

"When power is gone the memory of power lingers."

"Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross."