There’s a spiritual lassitude that comes with wealth. When you can have anything you want, anytime you want it, very little is precious to you.

The higher you rise, the greater your need for advice.

The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be discerned.

Why did people insist on starting journeys before the sun got warm? It couldn’t be healthy.

Short questions with long answers, my boy.

I never knew a woman could be fierce and beautiful and smart before I met you. Every time I see you I think of a hawk, beautiful and deadly.

A figure stood at the far end, cloaked in black and beckoning him.

Once Errol righted himself into some semblance of horsemanship, they set off at an easy canter. That is, the other horses set off at a canter, while Errol's horse settled into a teeth-shattering trot. After a hundred paces he could feel Horace's backbone through the saddle. The other riders pulled ahead without a backward glance, leaving him to his four-footed torture.

A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol's dismay. World without end. Was Illustra, their entire world, nothing more than a lot for the ultimate reader, too small and insignificant a thing to care about?

Some men are more easily broken by kindness than censure.