"Gold doesn't lie. People lie about gold. Those are very different problems, and I solve both."
“I don’t fight the sea. I schedule around it.”
“The light doesn’t stop the storm. It stops the loss.”
“Everything has a price. In Heathdun, the storm sets it first.”
“Dark doesn’t frighten me. What frightens me is a lie hiding inside it.”
“The rock doesn’t hate you. It just remembers what you forgot.”
“Deadlines don’t bury the dead. Bad joiners do.”
“The dead do not ask to be remembered. The living require it.”
“If it leaves tracks, it can be learned. If it can be learned, it can be killed.”
“You don’t rush peat. You cut it wrong, the bog remembers.”
“Metal remembers the hands that shaped it. So do I.”
“Ships, sleds, or skates—it’s all just traffic if you keep your head and mind the ice.”