Accept it,” Rakturan said. “I am different than the man you first met.” “So quickly?” “What is time? A thousand years can pass in a single day.

Revenge wasn’t what I had in mind. Protection was.""We can only do what is in our power to achieve.""In that case, we were going to have to find more power.

And we’d all live happily ever after... "Okay, that was a nice daydream, but maybe it’s time to come back to reality.

I’m determined not to be any less than someone with two working legs.""If only people didn’t all have to rub that crippled leg in my face as if it were a sin. That’s the part that bothers me the most. I didn’t do anything wrong – something wrong happened to me.

At least, if I must be owned, I am owned by someone who understands she has no right to my service.

Of course, it will be me. That’s who everyone else is voting for. I’ve decided not to make anyone else feel the way I do, with my name on the paper.

We were the Colors of our dragons whether we lived or died. There were no other choices for us.

Touch her and I will shred you to scraps and then burn what remains of you until the fat bubbles out. Well, that really painted a picture. Delightful, Raolcan. You should be a poet in your spare time.

I was losing friends too quickly, whether by having them stolen or by having them give up on me. It was a terrible feeling.