Tas had been teasing Flint unmercifully all morning, calling him “Seamaster” and “Shipmate” asking him the price of fish, and how much he would charge to Ferry them back across the lake. Flint finally threw a rock at him, and Tennis sent ass down to the lake to scrub out the pans.

You know sometimes I wish I’d been born a kender. No worries. No cares. No responsibilities. Nothing but pork chops. See you tonight Brother. I’d ask you to say a prayer but we’re up to our eyeballs in gods as it is.

The ones we love most are those we trust least.

Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems to me that I’d much rather be disliked for being me than to be disliked just because I’m a kender. I can do something about me, you see, but I can’t do much about being a kender because my mother was a kender and so was my father and that seems to have a lot to do with me being a kender.

Good” and “kender” being two words that were rarely, if ever, linked, Tasslehoff spent the time sitting at the table, thinking about what a good kender might be and wondering if he was one himself. He assumed he probably was, since he was a hero and all that.

Adesso prentiti un po’ di sonno”, disse il nano, con quella che Tas definiva la Voce di Suo Nonno.

No, as I’ve discovered, hate generally costs a man more than he can afford.

The darkness is killing us.

The people must acquire faith in themselves before they are ready to believe in anything beyond themselves.

Theros Ironfeld said once that – in all the years he had lived – he had never seen anything done out of love come to evil.