Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom. - Tad Williams

As with all dwellings," she said, "of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house—not the doors, not the walls.

Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. “You cannot catch three fish with two hands,” the little man often said.

The manchildren, the mortals, have many ideas of what happens after they die, and wrangle about who is right and who is wrong. These disagreements often come to bloodshed, as if they wished to dispatch messengers who could discover the answer to their dispute. Such messengers, as far as I know of mortal philosophy, never return to give their brethren the taste of truth they yearn for.