...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.

Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty.
Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

That’s how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.