Has anybody ever told you you’re a remarkably cynical person?”
“I like to think of it as learning from experience.

If there’s one thing all diviners share, it’s curiosity. We really can’t help it; it’s just part of who we are. If you dug out a tunnel somewhere in the wilderness a thousand miles from anywhere and hung a sign on it saying, ‘Warning, this leads to the Temple of Horrendous Doom. Do not enter, ever. No, not even then’, you’d get back from lunch to find a diviner already inside and two more about to go in.

Come to think about it, that might explain why there are so few of us.

As I walked, I started making a list of everyone in the mage world whom I’d opposed, fought with, or otherwise irritated. After I ran out of fingers to count on I decided to limit the number to people I’d pissed off relatively recently.

It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?

That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

They tugged plans and ambitions out their asses and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.