Wizard’s work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.

An Enforcer’s style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur.

I am only a dead Sciomancer, but I must warn you of fire and kisses.

You don’t have to bewitch me, Aiden. I like you already.

The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.

If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.