Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something. - Tanith Lee

Power is the wine after which all other wine is mud.

Is it the regency you want, or me?"
"The regency. You, sweetheart, are the worthless dross that comes with it.

The Prince then remembered the white-haired Theel in the Castle of Bone, who had also been kind, if a little odd, and he wondered why such nice creatures always seemed to live in bad places with wicked things going on all around them.
“That’s easy,” said the girl, seeming to read his thoughts as the other Theel had done. “The bad places are where we can do the most good.”