"Sometimes the blind to do with the blind." "Yeah," said Ned. "Straight over cliffs." - Guy Gavriel Kay

It was true, it was all true. But none of it was the truth.

He didn’t think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.

The Tyrants have cleaned out most of the highway brigands. Just a matter of protecting their own interests. They want to make sure no one else robs us before they do with their border tariffs and taxes." He spat, discreetly, into the dust of the road. "Personally I preferred the brigands. There were ways of dealing with them.