Dakon Quotes

“People and land, they’re the same, his father used to say. Neglect one and the other suffers eventually.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

“Hasty learning can lead to mistakes, and magical mistakes tend to be more spectacular than healing mistakes. My father used to use that reasoning to explain why apprentices of magi drink far less than the students of healing.”
Veran grinned. “’Healers wake up with a sore head,” he used to say; ‘magicians wake up with a sore head, our toes burned black and the roof on the floor.”
― Trudi Canavan

“It always seems easier to do nothing, when the harm is don elsewhere,” Dakon said. “They know their young ones will either learn a lesson and limp home – or die and stop being a problem – or prove successful. The worst that could happen is a bit of a diplomatic hiccup in history.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

“There’s no need for me to enter your mind, just sit at the edges and look for leakage.”
“Leakage?” Veran looked at his daughter. “You magicians have some interesting terms. Not particularly reassuring ones.”
― Trudi Canavan