Princeps' Fury (Codex Alera, #5)

by Jim Butcher

“Survival is also elder to convenience,”

“in the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway. I see no reason to jeopardize that success.”

that hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.

“Sometimes you don’t know the most important things,” Tavi said. “You believe them.”