Veran Quotes

“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

“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