"If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone"
"It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it."
"A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones."
"and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended"
"A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had."
"Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted."
"Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind."
"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."