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15358: |-
  "And the flamingos said, ‘Get out of our nest—we can't be seen with the likes of you!' So, the griffin ate them."
  —Azeworai, "The Ugly Bird"
14490: |-
  "Hold your position Leave doubt for the dying!"
  —Tahngarth of the Weatherlight
16438: |-
  Up and down,
  over and through,
  back around—
  the joke's on you.
15445: '"Ahh! Opposable digits!"'
14538: |-
  "Leviathan, too! Can you catch him with a fish-hook or run a line round his tongue?"
  —The Bible, Job 41:1
14753: |-
  Storm crow descending, winter unending.
  Storm crow departing, summer is starting.
14521: |-
  "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
  —William Blake,
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
16437: |-
  " . . . When the trees bow down their heads,
  The wind is passing by."
  —Christina Rossetti,
  "Who Has Seen the Wind?"
14561: |-
  A rhino's bargain
  —Femeref expression meaning
  "a situation with no choices"
11233: |-
  "Strength it has, but at the cost of a continuous supply of energy. Such failure can bear only one result."
  —Execution order of Endrek Sahr,
  master breeder
16629: '"Angels are simply extensions of truth upon the fabric of life—and there is
  far more dark than light." —Baron Sengir'
14604: |-
  "But I signed nothing!"
  —Taraneh, Suq'Ata mage
16627: |-
  "They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
  Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
  It had been strange, even in a dream,
  To have seen those dead men rise."
  —Samuel Coleridge,
  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
16441: |-
  "The shamans? Ha! They are craven cows not capable of true magic."
  —Irini Sengir
11212: |-
  "Why do we trade with those despicable elves? You don't live in forests, you burn them!"
  —Avram Garrisson,
  Leader of the Knights of Stromgald
14648: |-
  "If your blood doesn't run hot, I will make it run in the sands!"
  —Maraxus of Keld
14626: |-
  "The spirit of the flame is the spirit of change."
  —Lovisa Coldeyes,
  Balduvian chieftain
11303: |-
  "O! it is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant."
  —William Shakespeare,
  Measure for Measure
14618: |-
  "From down here we can make the whole wall collapse!"
  "Uh, yeah, boss, but how do we get out?"
15415: |-
  "When you're a goblin, you don't have to step forward to be a hero—everyone else just has to step back!"
  —Biggum Flodrot, goblin veteran
15417: '"Next!"'
15421: '"Goblins bred underground, their numbers hidden from the enemy until it was
  too late." -Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV'
11340: '"Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They''re
  dead." -Jaya Ballard, task mage'
14611: |-
  "Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! / Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return."
  —Navajo war chant
11476: |-
  "I fear anything with teeth measured in handspans!"
  —Norin the Wary
14717: |-
  "Did clouds dance in his eyes,
  did thorns play at his fingertips?"
  —Shesul Fass, faerie bard
14716: '"I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn''t hardly see
  the sun. So I says to young Angus, ‘Well, at least now we''re fighting in the shade!''"'
14715: |-
  Spring follows winter
  —Elvish expression meaning
  "all things pass"
14770: |-
  ". . . The magician drew a ring off his finger . . . , saying: ‘It is a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey me.'"
  —The Arabian Nights,
  Junior Classics trans.
11195: |-
  ". . . Our castle's strength
  Will laugh a siege to scorn."
  —William Shakespeare,
  Macbeth
26843: |-
  "North and South meet and angels sing.
  Voices resound with a righteous ring."
  —"The Ballad of the Paladins"
30168: |-
  "For he on honey-dew hath fed,
  And drunk the milk of Paradise."
  —Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
  "Kubla Khan"
13065: |-
  "Even in the darkest night
  Stars and angels still shine bright."
  —Onean children's rhyme
27115: |-
  "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
  —Lewis Carroll,
  Through the Looking Glass
11182: |-
  "Returne from whence ye came. . . ."
  —Edmund Spenser,
  The Faerie Queene
13075: |-
  "How many people can you save in that thing?"
  "All of them," replied the mage with a smile.
11304: |-
  Like arguing with ice
  —Vodalian expression meaning
  "wasting your time"
13172: |-
  Storm crow descending, winter unending.
  Storm crow departing, summer is starting.
25558: |-
  Why not ask the winds?
  —Tolarian expression meaning
  "Who knows?"
13039: |-
  "But high she shoots through air and light,
  Above all low delay,
  Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
  Nor shadow dims her way."
  —Thomas Moore,
  "Oh that I had Wings"
14754: |-
  "Hence ‘banishèd' is banished from the world, / And the world's exile is death."
  —William Shakespeare,
  Romeo and Juliet
11246: |-
  "The dead make good soldiers. They can't disobey orders, they never surrender, and they don't stop fighting when a random body part falls off."
  —Nevinyrral,
  Necromancer's Handbook
12957: |-
  "East and West meet and angels cry.
  Unholy power darkens the sky."
  —"The Ballad of the Paladins"
11377: |-
  "Brackish water, dark and blind
  Heed my will, to you I bind."
  —Opening passage of Leshrac's Rite
27588: |-
  "They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
  Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
  It had been strange, even in a dream,
  To have seen those dead men rise."
  —Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
25673: |-
  "From the snowy slopes of Kaelor,
  To the canyons of Bandu,
  We drink and fight and feast and die
  As we were born to do."
  —Balduvian tavern song
13053: |-
  "A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
  He passes from life to his rest in the grave."
  —William Knox, "Mortality"
15812: |-
  "Ready . . . aim . . . fire"
  "Ow"
11582: |-
  "For what are leaves but countless blades
  To fight a countless foe on high."
  —Elvish hymn
12963: |-
  "Bet you can't put it through the eye."
  "Left or right?"
11302: |-
  Watching the spider's web
  —Llanowar expression meaning
  "focusing on the wrong thing"
12999: |-
  And would you strip the bark from a treefolk?
  —Elvish expression meaning
  "Are you crazy?"
25586: |-
  "May the winds blow till they have wakened death. . . ."
  —William Shakespeare,
  Othello
25660: |-
  "Knowledge is power."
  —Sir Francis Bacon,
  Meditationes Sacrae
25656: |-
  It doesn't think. It doesn't feel.
  It doesn't laugh or cry.
  All it does from dusk till dawn
  Is make the soldiers die.
  —Onean children's rhyme
25657: |-
  Never forget your feet
  —Elvish expression meaning
  "watch your step"
45230: |-
  "But high she shoots through air and light,
  Above all low delay,
  Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
  Nor shadow dims her way."
  —Thomas Moore, "Oh that I had Wings"
45301: |-
  "Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say ‘death,'
  For exile hath more terror in his look,
  Much more than death."
  —William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
45329: |-
  "Neither could I forget what I had read of these pits—that the sudden extinction of life formed no part of their most horrible plan."
  —Edgar Allan Poe,
  "The Pit and the Pendulum"
45337: |-
  "Of all the tyrannies on humane kind
  The worst is that which persecutes the mind."
  —John Dryden,
  "The Hind and the Panther"
45294: |-
  "They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
  Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
  It had been strange, even in a dream,
  To have seen those dead men rise."
  —Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
45345: |-
  "From the snowy slopes of Kaelor,
  To the canyons of Bandu,
  We drink and fight and feast and die
  As we were born to do."
  —Balduvian tavern song
45375: |-
  "Pound the steel until it fits.
  Doesn't work? Bash to bits."
  —Dwarven forging song
45349: |-
  "A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
  He passes from life to his rest in the grave."
  —William Knox, "Mortality"
45442: |-
  "For what are leaves but countless blades
  To fight a countless foe on high."
  —Elvish hymn
45408: |-
  Watching the spider's web
  —Llanowar expression meaning
  "focusing on the wrong thing"
45420: |-
  "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
  —William Shakespeare,
  Troilus and Cressida
45450: |-
  To renew the land, plow the land.
  To destroy the land, do nothing.
  —Druids' saying
45485: |-
  "Hup, two, three, four,
  Dunno how to count no more."
  —Mogg march
45481: |-
  "A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection."
  —Crystal Eastman,
  "Equality or Protection"
45467: |-
  Step 1: Find your cousin.
  Step 2: Get your cousin in the cannon.
  Step 3: Find another cousin.
45471: |-
  It doesn't think. It doesn't feel.
  It doesn't laugh or cry.
  All it does from dusk till dawn
  Is make the soldiers die.
  —Onean children's rhyme
45280: |-
  "Cowards die many times before their deaths;
  The valiant never taste of death but once."
  —William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
45187: |-
  "Over the silver mountains,
  Where spring the nectar fountains,
  There will I kiss
  The bowl of bliss;
  And drink my everlasting fill. . . ."
  —Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Pilgrimage"
45176: |-
  To outrace the griffin
  —Kipamu expression meaning
  "to do the impossible"
83203: |-
  It doesn't think. It doesn't feel.
  It doesn't laugh or cry.
  All it does from dusk till dawn
  Is make the soldiers die.
  —Onean children's rhyme
83033: |-
  "Hup, two, three, four,
  Dunno how to count no more."
83167: '"Guess where I''m gonna plant this!"'
83105: |-
  Watching the spider's web
  —Llanowar expression meaning
  "focusing on the wrong thing"
83069: |-
  "For what are leaves but countless blades
  To fight a countless foe on high."
  —Elvish hymn
84541: |-
  "Earth's increase, foison plenty,
  Barns and garners never empty:
  Vines with clust'ring bunches growing;
  Plants with goodly burden bowing."
  —William Shakespeare, The Tempest
83150: |-
  "A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
  He passes from life to his rest in the grave."
  —William Knox, "Mortality"
83145: '"Catch!"'
83054: |-
  "Pound the steel until it fits.
  Doesn't work? Bash to bits."
  —Dwarven forging song
83001: |-
  "From the snowy slopes of Kaelor,
  To the canyons of Bandu,
  We drink and fight and feast and die
  As we were born to do."
  —Balduvian tavern song
83292: |-
  "Rats, rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life."
  —Bram Stoker, Dracula
83247: |-
  "They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
  Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
  It had been strange, even in a dream,
  To have seen those dead men rise."
  —Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
83199: |-
  "Of all the tyrannies on humane kind
  The worst is that which persecutes the mind."
  —John Dryden,
  "The Hind and the Panther"
83204: |-
  "Neither could I forget what I had read of these pits—that the sudden extinction of life formed no part of their most horrible plan."
  —Edgar Allan Poe,
  "The Pit and the Pendulum"
83046: |-
  "Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say ‘death,'
  For exile hath more terror in his look,
  Much more than death."
  —William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
84659: |-
  "No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, / Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,— / The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells."
  —Wilfred Owen,
  "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
83334: |-
  "But high she shoots through air and light,
  Above all low delay,
  Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
  Nor shadow dims her way."
  —Thomas Moore, "Oh that I had Wings"
84141: |-
  "If yesterday was two days ago tomorrow, will the day after tomorrow be today or yesterday?"
  —Temporal Manipulation 101 final exam,
  Tolarian Academy
83446: |-
  "Who's the crazy one now!?"
  —Torgle, mountaintop boatmaker
83165: |-
  Follow the pathmage
  —Otarian expression meaning
  "escape quickly"
83039: |-
  "Cowards die many times before their deaths;
  The valiant never taste of death but once."
  —William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
83084: |-
  Little dreamt could seem so cruel
  As waiting for the wings outspread,
  The jagged teeth, the burning eyes,
  And dagger-claws that clench to nerves.
83240: |-
  "Over the silver mountains,
  Where spring the nectar fountains,
  There will I kiss
  The bowl of bliss;
  And drink my everlasting fill. . . ."
  —Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Pilgrimage"
84552: |-
  "The hour of your redemption is here. . . . Rally to me. . . . rise and strike. Strike at every favorable opportunity. For your homes and hearths, strike!"
  —General Douglas MacArthur,
  to the people of the Philippines
83121: |-
  "The day of Spirits; my soul's calm retreat / Which none disturb!"
  —Henry Vaughan, "The Night"
83962: |-
  "Don't look at it! Maybe it'll go away!"
  —Ib Halfheart, goblin tactician
129502: |-
  "Hup, two, three, four,
  Dunno how to count no more."
135282: |-
  "Let the forest spread! From salt, stone, and fen, let the new trees rise."
  —Molimo, maro-sorcerer
129642: '"Guess where I''m gonna plant this!"'
135186: |-
  "Bet you can't put it through the eye."
  "Left or right?"
129534: |-
  "For what are leaves but countless blades
  To fight a countless foe on high."
  —Elvish hymn
106473: |-
  "Some goblins are expendable. Some are impossible to get rid of. But he's both—at the same time!"
  —Starke
134748: '"I got it! I got it! I—"'
129624: |-
  "A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
  He passes from life to his rest in the grave."
  —William Knox, "Mortality"
129620: '"Catch!"'
129579: |-
  "Boss told us to try and train 'em. Trained it to attack—it ate Flugg. Trained it to run fast—it got away. Success!"
  —Dlig, goblin spelunker
129522: |-
  "Pound the steel until it fits.
  Doesn't work? Bash to bits."
  —Dwarven forging song
129718: |-
  "They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
  Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
  It had been strange, even in a dream,
  To have seen those dead men rise."
  —Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
129596: |-
  "Hmm . . . It looks kinda like a bug. Let's crack it open an' see if it tastes like one!"
  —Squee, goblin cabin hand
129908: |-
  "Nature? Fire? Bah! Both are chaotic and difficult to control. Ice is structured, latticed, light as a feather, massive as a glacier. In ice, there is power!"
  —Heidar, Rimewind master
134758: |-
  Follow the pathmage
  —Otarian expression meaning
  "escape quickly"
129912: |-
  "The White Shield is not the burnished metal you lash to your forearm but the conviction that burns in your chest."
  —Lucilde Fiksdotter,
  leader of the Order of the White Shield
130528: |-
  "No doubt the arbiters would put you away, after all the documents are signed. But I will have justice now!"
  —Alovnek, Boros guildmage
191059: |-
  "We'll scale these cliffs, traverse Brittle Bridge, and then fight our way down the volcanic slopes on the other side."
  "Isn't the shortest route through the canyon?"
  "Yes."
  "So shouldn't we—"
  "No."
190555: |-
  "The beauty of mental attacks is that your victims never remember them."
  —Volrath
190192: |-
  "Death is no excuse for disobedience."
  —Liliana Vess
190190: |-
  "Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
  —Vradeen, vampire nocturnus
190537: |-
  "You know I accept only one currency here, and yet you have sought me out. Why now do you hesitate?"
  —Xathrid demon
191343: |-
  "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."
  —Rabindranath Tagore
190546: |-
  "Born under the moon, the second child will stumble on temptation and seek power in the dark places of the heart."
  —Codex of the Constellari
190545: |-
  "Phirax of Blood Ridge has sent a war giant at us? What, do I have to spell it out for you? Kill the giant, scoop out its skull, and drive it back to Blood Ridge. Honestly, what kind of necromancer minions are you?"
  —Keren-Dur, necromancer lord
191082: |-
  "Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison."
  —Sarkhan Vol
191090: |-
  "Those who wish to invade our monastery, please take it up with my servant."
  —Chandra Nalaar
191073: |-
  "Let the gray-hairs keep their ravens and drakes. My familiar will be a reflection of me: bloodthirsty, with a predator's instinct."
  —Taivang, barbarian warlord
193741: |-
  "Rage is a dangerous weapon. Your enemies will try to use your anger against you. Use it against them first."
  —Ajani Goldmane
191054: |-
  "A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
  He passes from life to his rest in the grave."
  —William Knox, "Mortality"
193748: |-
  "I don't know why people say a double-edged sword is bad. It's a sword. With two edges."
  —Kamahl, pit fighter
191081: |-
  "What do they see in the throes of panic? I'm not sure I want to know."
  —Kezim, prodigal pyromancer
194425: |-
  "Who'd want to ignite things one at a time?"
  —Chandra Nalaar
191095: |-
  "Life up here is simple. Adapt to the ways of the mountains and they will reward you. Fight them and they will end you."
  —Kezim, prodigal pyromancer
191063: |-
  "Kill the queen first, or we'll be fighting her drones forever. It is not in a queen's nature to have enough servants."
  —Borzard, exterminator captain
189915: |-
  "I've seen the fully grown ones tear a baloth to gory ribbons in seconds."
  —Kivi, thornberry harvester
189883: |-
  "The centaurs are truly free. Never will they be tamed by temptation or controlled by fear. They live in total harmony, a feat not yet achieved by our kind."
  —Ramal, sage of Westgate
191317: |-
  From Gaea grew the world, and the world was silent. From Gaea grew the world's elves, and the world was silent no more.
  —Elvish teaching
189919: |-
  "I fear no army or beast, but only the morning fog. Our assault can survive everything else."
  —Lord Hilneth
191394: |-
  "Do not fire upon it—it is bad luck. And a waste of arrows."
  —Alera Benath, Kalonian ranger
189878: |-
  One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot.
  —Llanowar penalty for trespassing
191316: |-
  May your weapon be no sword forged. May your armor be no metal wrought.
  —Elvish saying
189921: |-
  "I can't claim to hunt all creatures. There are some things in the jungle that simply can't be hunted."
  —Garruk Wildspeaker
189922: |-
  "When the beast cloaks itself in the mighty oak, what good is a bow? When the oak wraps itself around the snarling beast, what good is a hatchet?"
  —Dionus, elvish archdruid
189900: |-
  "The desire for its magic horn inspires such bloodthirsty greed that all who see the unicorn will kill to possess it."
  —Dionus, elvish archdruid
189899: |-
  "Sometimes I wonder if our weapons and armor are a step backward."
  —Soron, rhox pikemaster
191596: |-
  "We don't like interlopers and thieves cluttering our skies."
  —Dionus, elvish archdruid
191339: |-
  "My masterpiece is complete—and so shall be my triumph."
  —Saldrath, master artificer
191338: |-
  "Everything the wise woman learned she wrote in a book, and when the pages were black with ink, she took white ink and began again."
  —Karn, silver golem
189904: |-
  "It's a vicious circle. Stress breeds pain. Pain breeds stress. It's simply beautiful, wouldn't you agree?"
  —Vradeen, vampire nocturnus
190580: |-
  "Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
  —Liliana Vess
190552: |-
  "The dead make good soldiers. They can't disobey orders, never surrender, and don't stop fighting when a random body part falls off."
  —Nevinyrral, Necromancer's Handbook
190559: |-
  "Stop complaining. You can rest when you're dead. Oh—sorry."
  —Liliana Vess
193745: |-
  "This is how wars are won—not with armies of soldiers but with a single knife blade, artfully placed."
  —Yurin, royal assassin
190160: |-
  "I welcome it. The pasture is cleared of weeds and the wolves are frozen solid."
  —Lumi, goatherd
190177: |-
  "The educated mind is heavy with lore and knowledge. It's also the most likely to collapse under its own weight."
  —Ambassador Laquatus
189910: |-
  "The most disappointing thing about learning telepathy is finding out how boring people really are."
  —Teferi, fourth-level student
190186: |-
  "I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious."
  —Garild, merfolk mage
189892: |-
  "The construction of a defense is not accomplished by adding bricks."
  —Jace Beleren
190197: |-
  "Why fight the body when you can dominate the mind that rules it?"
  —Jace Beleren
193743: |-
  "Humanity has always envied the power of flight. So we took it."
  —Scytha, aeromage
189897: |-
  "Illusion is a handy but fragile medium. Use it only in a pinch, or against the dim-witted."
  —Jace Beleren
190556: |-
  "All consciousness is one, separated only by a thin veil of the physical."
  —Jace Beleren
190168: |-
  "Your downfall was not your ignorance, your weakness, or your hubris, but your warm blood."
  —Heidar, Rimewind master
189876: |-
  "I'm one masterpiece away from ruling this pathetic world."
  —Saldrath, master artificer
190172: |-
  "The key to unlocking this puzzle is within you."
  —Doriel, mentor of Mistral Isle
190171: |-
  "If it has a brain, even a primitive one, we can most surely scramble it."
  —Garild, merfolk mage
189894: |-
  "The ground polluted floats with human gore,
  And human carnage taints the dreadful shore
  Fly swift the dangerous coast: let every ear
  Be stopp'd against the song! 'tis death to hear!"
  —Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Pope
6126: |-
  "If we cannot live proudly, we die so!"
  —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves
6163: '"In Barrin''s name!" cried Lyna as Hanna''s sword passed through her, "Ertai
  sends word that the portal is open-but not for long!"'
6055: |-
  "Read the roots    tell the tale
  Future forms    in waving weeds
  Higher than truth   is hope."
  —Rootwater Saga
5273: |-
  "no home    no heart    no hope"
  —Stronghold graffito
5709: |-
  "He has returned. He who brought the dark ones. He who poisoned our paradise. How shall we greet him? With swift and certain death!"
  —Radiant, archangel
12367: |-
  "Our Mother! The sky was Her hair; the sun, Her face. She danced on the grass and in the hills."
  —Song of All, canto 23
13001: '"I wrecked your metal guy, boss. But look! I made you an ashtray."'
12947: '"Catch!"'
9689: Keep off the glass. —Hydra warning sign
8831: '"Wonderful! You got a lion on your first try. Now put it back."'
8805: A landslide of goblins poured toward the defenders—tumbling, rolling, and bouncing
  their way down the steep hillside.
5543: |-
  "It only short jump. You go first."
  "AIIIEEEE!"
  "Hmm . . . we go different way now."
5541: '"If you kids don''t stop that racket, I''m turning this expedition around right
  now!"'
5627: |-
  "Father of Machines! Your filigree gaze carves us, and the scars dance upon our grateful flesh."
  —Phyrexian Scriptures
7817: '". . . But I''m not tired!"'
5729: |-
  "The clouds came alive and dove to the earth! Hooves flashed among the dark army, who fled before the spectacle of fury."
  —Song of All, canto 211
5823: Titania rewards all those who honor the forest by making them a living part
  of it.
5577: |-
  "How could you not hear it approach? It's a hippo!"
  —Argivian commander
5862: In Argoth, the shortest path between two points is the one the swine make.
15257: |-
  "Stop thinking like an artificer, Urza, and start thinking like a father!"
  —Rayne, Academy Chancellor
10500: "\"Thorn bushes spring up wherever the army has passed. Lean years follow in
  the wake of a great war.\" \n—Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (trans. Feng and English)"
10624: Confronting Cao Cao's army at Steepslope Bridge, Zhang Fei bellowed, "I am
  Zhang Fei of Yan! Who dares fight me to the death?" Cao Cao's army cowered and fled.
10489: Liu Bei lost many men at the battle of Runan because of his lack of strategy.
  It wasn't until he met Kongming that he began to truly succeed as a leader.
10686: Zhao Zilong was a brave and noble warrior. Twice he rescued Liu Bei's son,
  Liu Shan.
10623: At Red Cliffs, Kongming and Zhou Yu each wrote his plan for defeating the Wei
  on the palm of his hand. They laughed as they both revealed the same word, "Fire."
10515: Frustrated with Cao Cao's control of the imperial court, Emporer Xian secretly
  issued an edict condemning him, using his own blood as ink.
13831: '"A splendid talent, admired of all men! His folly lay in serving Cao Cao''s
  power."'
10609: |-
  "A man, and such a fool! I, a woman, will fight them for you."
  —Lady Zhurong to her husband Meng Huo, before leading an army against the Shu
213807: |-
  "Use everything. Iron, rust, scrap . . . even the ground must join our cause."
  —Ezuri, renegade leader
198394: |-
  "Murasan hurdas were too aggressive to tolerate a harness, so we put them on guard duty. Now the bandits can't get within spitting distance of us."

  —Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad
152988: |-
  "Curse these merrows and their meddling! Since coming near the river, I can't so much as sneeze without being soaked."
  —Ashling the Pilgrim
152539: More, more, more!
158766: |-
  "Terrible wind. It whipped sparks into our skin, then stoked them even hotter!"
  —Bowen, Barrenton guardcaptain
139480: '"The changing kind suffers as we do. We must join as one to quench our tyrants!"'
146169: '"How do the vinebred feel? Fah! We do not ask the puppet how it feels when
  the puppeteer bids it dance."'
142359: Auntie excitedly held up the squalling newborn. "This one looks like Byoog!
  Maybe he'll tell us what he saw and felt in the beyond."
121218: |-
  "Nature? Fire? Bah! Both are chaotic and difficult to control. Ice is structured, latticed, light as a feather, massive as a glacier. In ice, there is power!"
  —Heidar, Rimewind master
121147: '"The umber stain of the Thaw will be bleached away. Once again the world
  will be sharp, white, perfect!"'
113542: '"I lead my horde to the northwest. I won''t return until the ice wizards
  fall and their fiendish contraptions are crushed!"'
130686: '"Hrrngh! Someday I''m going to hurl this . . . er . . . roll this . . . hrrngh
  . . . nudge this boulder right down a cliff."'
136040: |-
  "Take care what you offer the ignus. Food, perhaps. Coins. But nothing flammable!"
  —Stovic, village eccentric
136151: |-
  "Whip the Xs! Pinch the Os!
  What we're building, no one knows!"
130670: '"Dance, and bring forth the coil! It is an umbilical to Gaea herself, fattening
  us with the earth''s rich bounty."'
96891: |-
  "Diametrically opposing energies in self-sealed plasmodermic bubbles make great pets!"
  —Trivaz, Izzet mage
97207: '"Take the bridge, men! Victory! Victory! is ou— Retreat! RETREAT"'
96952: '"(Z->)90° - (E-N²W)90°t=1"'
97204: |-
  "I ran the experiment through the brain of a schizophrenic lab-goblin. My burners' flames fell asleep while the beakers jumped about and shattered. Success!"
  —Myznar, Izzet psychomancer
97222: |-
  "The sky isn't falling—it's being thrown at us!"
  —Otak, Tin Street shopkeep
107693: |-
  "Crush them!"
  —Borborygmos
107098: |-
  "Steering apparatus?! What for? Rip it out, sharpen it, and lash it to the front!"
  —Ktank, Gruul plowmaster
96970: |-
  "This palace will be our fire-spit, and roasted prince our victory meal. Send in the torch-pigs!"
  —Ghut Rak, Gruul guildmage
96960: '"Rauck-Chauv''s like a holiday! Only it isn''t on the calendars, and instead
  of dancing you knock people flat, and instead of giving gifts you break stuff."'
97190: |-
  "Our fealty to guilds dooms us. The old gods shall resurface. Our skins will wave upon the guild-masts over emptied streets, and our bones will clatter in the wind."
  —Ilromov, traveling storyteller
96906: '"But then . . . oh, but . . . which means . . . which would lead to . . .
  exactly!"'
97218: |-
  "Drakes? Bah! Things that breathe don't interest me. It breathes fire, you say? Well, that's a different story!"
  —Zataz, Izzet clockwork artificer
97229: |-
  "It's easy to see why those Gruul dirtbags follow him—the only orders he gives are ‘Crush them!' and ‘We eat!'"
  —Teysa
89044: '"Let the song of Selesnya be heard above the rhythm of our thundering hordes!"'
83611: |-
  "Hear that? Those notes mean we've arrived at Sunhome! Let our allies' hearts soar and our enemies' hearts shatter at the sound!"
  —Klattic, Boros legionnaire
113553: |-
  "They're still here?! The cockroach may have finally met its match."
  —Teferi
108823: |-
  "Great books are meant to be read, then read again backwards or upside down!"
  —Ettovard, Tolarian archivist
83811: "\"Edahlis, what is that thing? We should have stayed in Yavimaya . . . .\"
  \n—Aznaph, greenseeker"
126278: '"Behold! The image of the enemy and all that she has. Trust your envy, and
  take it."'
113618: |-
  "The day is mine! I sent three such creatures against my foe, then watched as my magefire popped her soldiers like overripe spleenfruits."
  —Dobruk the Unstable, pyromancer
114912: '"Everybody but me—CHARGE!"'
114902: |-
  "Crispy! Scarback! Load another volcano-ball."
  —Stumphobbler Thuj, Orcish captain
118870: '"Obey!"'
19689: '"No, I insist—let *me* carry all that heavy jewelry."'
19585: '"Tonight, madam, it''s your money *and* your life."'
21773: 'The Saprazzans excel at both tactics: hit *and* run.'
19667: Successful delivery is *not* guaranteed.
19716: '"General?!" Tahngarth roared. "General *nuisance*, maybe."'
21278: '"If it ain''t broke, I''ll break it. If it *is* broke, I''ll fix it."'
21376: '"Sit. Heel! Down! HELP!"'
31807: It despises humans and squirrels and beasts and dwarves and cephalids . . .
  well, it despises just about everything.
24559: '"To arms! To arms! The Lion roars!"'
24582: '"Ogg hit wall. Ogg no kill wall. Ogg hate wall!"'
24580: '"We outnumber them! Charge! Charge! Hey, where''d you guys go? Retreat! Retreat!"'
20396: '"Join the army, see foreign countries!" they''d said.'
21048: |-
  "Let's do it again!"
  —Squee, goblin cabin hand
21029: '"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." —William Blake,
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'
20380: |-
  "Cursed be the sickly forms that err from honest Nature's rule!"
  —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Locksley Hall"
21055: '"And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine; and the herd ran
  violently . . . ." —The Bible, Mark 5:13'
107494: |-
  "No doubt the arbiters would put you away, after all the documents are signed. But I will have justice now!"
  —Alovnek, Boros guildmage
107254: '"You will do the thinking for the both of us!"'
107451: |-
  "The victim bears the marks of the ‘Ktozok Impaler'. . . but he was executed years ago!"
  —Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator
107337: |-
  "The forward flame-kin are popping. We have incoming!"
  —Svar, Boros signaler
107446: '"Start knockin'' heads, boys, and don''t stop ''til the ragamuffyn sings!"'
107598: |-
  "Meat and eggs. We eat!"
  —Borborygmos
107327: |-
  "Ooh, shiny! Let's pull off the chain and take her with us."
  —Ukl, Gruul raider, last words
125877: |-
  "Blasted fishtails! It's not enough that they meddle with my head, but they twist my body as well."
  —Tahngarth of the Weatherlight
122338: |-
  "Learn to burn!"
  —Institute of Arcane Studies motto
108862: |-
  "If we cannot live proudly, we die so!"
  —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves
109748: Harthag gave a jolly laugh as he surveyed the army before him. "Ho ho ho!
  Midgets! You think you can stand in my way?"
74467: |-
  "The Okiba Gang! Night-cursed thieves and assassins! I've had enough of their meddling! Triple the guard!"
  —Marrow-Gnawer
84648: '"Soramaro speaks through me. Listen! And I will tell the wisdom of the ancestors."'
74187: |-
  "Beware Adamaro! In him all pain and anger is perfected."
  —Isao, Enlightened Bushi
74393: '"What part of ''hayaku ikee!'' did you not understand?"'
84711: '"Heart of Sokenzan, I call to you! Lend me your fire."'
179: |-
  "What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf."
  —Conrad Aiken
180: '"And through the drifts the snowy cliffs/ Did send a dismal sheen:/ Nor shapes
  of men nor beasts we ken—/ The ice was all between."/\n—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime
  of the Ancient Mariner"'
201: '"From up here we can drop rocks and arrows and more rocks!" "Uh, yeah boss,
  but how do we get down?"'
218: We encountered a valley topped with immense boulders and eerie rock formations.
  Suddenly one of these boulders toppled from its perch and sprouted gargantuan wings,
  casting a shadow of darkness and sending us fleeing in terror.
261: |-
  "‘Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, ‘if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'"
  —Lewis Carroll
24: "\"Some of the other guys dared me to touch it, but I knew it weren't no ordinary
  hunk o' rock.\" \n—Norin the Wary"
81: |-
  "They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,/ Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;/ It had been strange, even in a dream,/ To have seen those dead men rise."/
  —Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
112: Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the
  wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is
  a master of trickery and misdirection.
137: '"This ''standing windstorm'' can hold us off indefinitely? Ridiculous!" Saying
  nothing, she put a pinch of salt on the table. With a bang she clapped her hands,
  and the salt disappeared, blown away.'
147: I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the
  sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"
456: After years of training, the Druid becomes one with nature, drawing power from
  the land and returning it when needed.
474: |-
  "What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf."
  —Conrad Aiken
475: '"And through the drifts the snowy cliffs/ Did send a dismal sheen:/ Nor shapes
  of men nor beasts we ken—/ The ice was all between."/\n—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime
  of the Ancient Mariner"'
496: '"From up here we can drop rocks and arrows and more rocks!" "Uh, yeah boss,
  but how do we get down?"'
513: We encountered a valley topped with immense boulders and eerie rock formations.
  Suddenly one of these boulders toppled from its perch and sprouted gargantuan wings,
  casting a shadow of darkness and sending us fleeing in terror.
557: |-
  "‘Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, ‘if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'"
  —Lewis Carroll
319: "\"Some of the other guys dared me to touch it, but I knew it weren't no ordinary
  hunk o' rock.\" \n—Norin the Wary"
376: |-
  "They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,/ Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;/ It had been strange, even in a dream,/To have seen those dead men rise."/
  —Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
407: Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the
  wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is
  a master of trickery and misdirection.
432: '"This ''standing windstorm'' can hold us off indefinitely? Ridiculous!" Saying
  nothing, she put a pinch of salt on the table. With a bang she clapped her hands,
  and the salt disappeared, blown away.'
442: I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the
  sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"
922: "\"Expect my visit when the darkness comes. The night I think is best for hiding
  all.\" \n—Ouallada"
953: "\"When one wolf calls, others follow. Who wants to fight creatures that eat
  scorpions?\" \n—Maimun al-Wyluli, Diary"
954: "\"When one wolf calls, others follow. Who wants to fight creatures that eat
  scorpions?\" \n—Maimun al-Wyluli, Diary"
956: "\"When he reached the entrance of the cavern, he pronounced the words, ‘Open,
  Sesame!'\" \n—The Arabian Nights, Junior Classics trans."
958: "\"Four things that never meet do here unite To shed my blood and to ravage my
  heart, A radiant brow and tresses that beguile And rosy cheeks and a glittering
  smile.\" \n—The Arabian Nights, trans. Haddawy"
959: "\"Four things that never meet do here unite To shed my blood and to ravage my
  heart, A radiant brow and tresses that beguile And rosy cheeks and a glittering
  smile.\" \n—The Arabian Nights, trans. Haddawy"
970: "On the day of victory no one is tired. \n—Arab proverb"
969: "On the day of victory no one is tired. \n—Arab proverb"
974: "\"We made tempestuous winds obedient to Solomon . . . And many of the devils
  We also made obedient to him.\" \n—The Qur'an, 21:81"
977: "\"Whoever obeys God and His Prophet, fears God and does his duty to Him, will
  surely find success.\" \n—The Qur'an, 24:52"
978: "\"Whoever obeys God and His Prophet, fears God and does his duty to Him, will
  surely find success.\" \n—The Qur'an, 24:52"
979: "\"For my confession they burned me with fire And found that I was for endurance
  made.\" \n—The Arabian Nights, trans. Haddawy"
981: "\"When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.\" \n—Kikuyu Proverb"
982: "\"When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.\" \n—Kikuyu Proverb"
901: "\"After these words the magician drew a ring off his finger, and put it on one
  of Aladdin's, saying: 'It is a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey me.'\"
  \n—The Arabian Nights, Junior Classics trans."
621: "\"Some of the other guys dared me to touch it, but I knew it weren't no ordinary
  hunk o' rock.\" \n—Norin the Wary"
859: |-
  "‘Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, ‘if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'"
  —Lewis Carroll
678: |-
  "They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,/ Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;/ It had been strange, even in a dream,/To have seen those dead men rise."/
  —Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
709: Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the
  wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is
  a master of trickery and misdirection.
734: '"This ''standing windstorm'' can hold us off indefinitely? Ridiculous!" Saying
  nothing, she put a pinch of salt on the table. With a bang she clapped her hands,
  and the salt disappeared, blown away.'
744: I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the
  sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"
776: "\"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf.\" \n—Conrad
  Aiken"
777: '"And through the drifts the snowy cliffs/ Did send a dismal sheen:/ Nor shapes
  of men nor beasts we ken—/ The ice was all between."/\n—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime
  of the Ancient Mariner"'
798: '"From up here we can drop rocks and arrows and more rocks!" "Uh, yeah boss,
  but how do we get down?"'
815: We encountered a valley topped with immense boulders and eerie rock formations.
  Suddenly one of these boulders toppled from its perch and sprouted gargantuan wings,
  casting a shadow of darkness and sending us fleeing in terror.
1165: "\". . . There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face. . .\" \n—Samuel
  Coleridge, \"Phantom\""
1208: Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the
  wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is
  a master of trickery and misdirection.
1093: "\"After these words the magician drew a ring off his finger, and put it on
  one of Aladdin's, saying: ‘It is a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey
  me.'\" \n—The Arabian Nights, Junior Classics trans."
1356: '"‘Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never
  saw one alive before!'' ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,'' said the Unicorn,
  ‘if you''ll believe in me, I''ll believe in you.''"\n—Lewis Carroll'
1313: We encountered a valley topped with immense boulders and eerie rock formations.
  Suddenly one of these boulders, toppled from its perch and sprouted gargantuan wings,
  casting a shadow of darkness and sending us fleeing in terror.
1286: |-
  "Work with zeal as hammers peal! Melt, anneal, and pound the steel!"
  —Old Dwarvish forge-chant
1275: Everybody knows that to ward off trouble, you knock on wood. But usually it's
  better to make a wall out of the wood and let trouble do the knocking.
1242: I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the
  sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"
1232: '"This ‘standing windstorm'' can hold us off indefinitely? Ridiculous!" Saying
  nothing, she put a pinch of salt on the table. With a bang she clapped her hands,
  and the salt disappeared, blown away.'
1295: '"From up here we can drop rocks and arrows and more rocks!" "Uh, yeah boss,
  but how do we get down?"'
2182: |-
  "Leviathan, too! Can you catch him with a fish-hook or run a line round his tongue?"
  —Job 40:25
2196: '"This ''standing windstorm'' can hold us off indefinitely? Ridiculous!" Saying
  nothing, she put a pinch of salt on the table. With a bang she clapped her hands,
  and the salt disappeared, blown away.'
2210: I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the
  sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"
2223: After years of training, the Druid becomes one with nature, drawing power from
  the land and returning it when needed.
2257: |-
  "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"
  —William Shakespeare, King Lear
2258: |-
  "When he reached the entrance of the cavern, he pronounced the words, ‘Open, Sesame!'"
  —The Arabian Nights, Junior Classics trans.
2266: Noted neither for their good looks nor their charm, Manticores can be fearsome
  allies. As dinner companions, however, they are best left alone.
2269: '"O to be a dragon . . . of silkworm size or immense . . ." —Marianne Moore,
  "O to Be a Dragon"'
2279: |-
  "O! it is excellentTo have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannousTo use it like a giant."
  —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
2280: '"From up here we can drop rocks and arrows and more rocks!"\n"Uh, yeah boss,
  but how do we get down?"'
2300: |-
  "Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me!
  Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return."
  —Navajo war chant
2352: '"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort."\n—The Book of Tal'
2354: |-
  "‘Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, ‘if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'"
  —Lewis Carroll
2369: |-
  "Visions of glory, spare my aching sight,
  Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!"
  —Thomas Gray, "The Bard"
2015: "\"After these words the magician drew a ring off his finger, and put it on
  one of Aladdin's, saying: ‘It is a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey
  me.'\" \n—The Arabian Nights, Junior Classics trans."
2093: '". . . [S]creams of horror rend th'' affrighted skies." —Alexander Pope, The
  Rape of the Lock'
1029: A brainchild of Tawnos, the Triskelion proved its versatility and usefulness
  in many of the later battles between the brothers.
1039: "\"The warm rain of grease on my face immediately made it clear I had entered
  Phyrexia.\" \n—Jarsyl, Diary"
1086: Artifact construction required immense resources.
1085: Artifact construction required immense resources.
1084: Artifact construction required immense resources.
1087: Artifact construction required immense resources.
1465: '"For something is amiss or out of place/ When mice with wings can wear a human
  face." —Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"'
1542: '"Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the
  meek." —Ecclesiastes 3:19'
1543: "\"How dull it is to pause, to make an end,/ To rust unburnished, not to shine
  in use,/ As though to breathe were life!\" \n—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \"Ulysses\""
1553: '"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" —William Shakespeare, King
  Lear'
1554: '"Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves
  and fight like devils." —William Shakespeare, King Henry V'
1573: '"The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,/ Her ashes new-create another
  heir/ As great in admiration as herself." —William Shakespeare, King Henry the Eighth.'
1575: "\"O! it is excellent/ To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous/ To use
  it like a giant.\" \n—William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure"
1578: '"The smith a mighty man is he/ With large and sinewy hands./ And the muscles
  of his brawny arms/ Are strong as iron bands." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The
  Village Blacksmith'
1581: "\"One for all, all for one; we strike first, and then you're done!\" \n—Oath
  of the Kobold Musketeers"
1587: '"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that''s me! Four lightnings zigzag from
  me, strike and return."—Navajo war chant'
1588: '"O Great Captain, all is lost. They tunneled, they burrowed, they trenched.
  They sapped the strength of our defenses." —Sorgus, Chronicles of the Quarum Plains'
1589: '"Sometimes the bulls win, and sometimes the bears win. But the bulls have more
  fun." —Anonymous'
1590: '"Striking silent as a dream,/ Cutting short the strangled scream . . ." —Tobrian,
  "Watchdragon"'
1593: '"Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed."
  —Samuel Butler'
1598: '"‘Tis the set of sails, and not the gales,/ Which tells us the way to go."
  —Ella Wheeler Wilcox'
1600: '"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
  —D''Avenant proverb'
1528: '"The turtle lives ''twixt plated decks/ Which practically conceal its sex./
  I think it clever of the turtle/ In such a fix to be so fertile." —Ogden Nash, "The
  Turtle"'
1618: '"The day of spirits; my soul''s clam retreat/ Which none disturb!" —Henry Vaughan,
  "Silex Scintillans"'
1622: And then the Archangel Anthius spoke to them, saying, "Fear shall be vanquished
  by the Sword of Faith."
1625: '"Foolish wizard! As you tap the power of your lofty keep, so grows my strength."
  —Malvern Xelionos, Letters'
1637: '"It was full of fire and smoke and light and . . . it drove between us and
  the Efrafans like a thousand thunderstorms with lightning." —Richard Adams, Watership
  Down'
1639: '"Visions of glory, spare my aching sight,/ Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my
  soul!"—Thomas Gray, The Bard'
1640: '"Ow! Ow ow ow! Oooh, ow, OW!"'
1700: '"‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,/ And robes the mountain in its
  azure hue." —Thomas Campbell, "Pleasures of Hope"'
1701: '"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,/ One clover, and a bee,/
  And revery." —Emily Dickinson'
1703: '"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . /
  Stand like Druids of old." —Henry WadsworthLongfellow, "Evangeline"'
1705: '"Fairest Isle, all isles excelling,/ Seat of pleasures, and of loves . . ."
  —John Dryden'
1707: '"Resignedly beneath the sky/The melancholy waters lie./So blend the turrets
  and shadows there/That all seem pendulous in air,/While from a proud tower in town/Death
  looks gigantically down." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The City in the Sea"'
1642: '". . . And at his passing, the bodies of the world''s great warriors shall
  rise from their graves and follow him to battle." —The Anvilonian Grimoire'
1643: '"Battles no longer served a purpose in Karakas." —Angus Mackenzie, Diary'
1647: He is devious and cunning, in both appearance and deed. Beware the Warbeard,
  for this brute bites as well as he barks!
1651: '"My power is as vast as the plains, my strength is that of mountains. Each
  wave that crashes upon the shore thunders like blood in my veins." —Memoirs'
1667: '"I do not remember what he said to her. I remember her fiery eyes, fixed upon
  him for an instant. I remember a flash, and the hot breath of sudden flames made
  me turn away. When I looked again, Angus was gone." —A Wayfarer, on meeting Lady
  Orca'
1683: '"Remember Sir Shandlar! Remember and stand firm!" —rallying cry of the Eberyn
  militia'
1523: '"Sometimes it is better to be swift of foot than strong of swordarm."—Eleven
  Proverb'
1522: '"And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine; and the herd ran
  violently . . ." —Mark 5:13'
1520: Harthag gave a jolly laugh as he surveyed the army before him. "Ho ho ho! Midgets!
  You think you can stand in my way?"
1511: So confusing is the Wall's appearance that few of its victims even see it move.
1510: '"Walls of a castle are made out of stone,/ Walls of a house out of bricks or
  of wood./ My walls are made out of magic alone,/ Stronger than any that ever have
  stood." —Chrysoberyl Earthsdaughter, Incantations'
1502: '"Leviathan, too! Can you catch him with a fish-hook/ or run a line round his
  tongue?" —Job 40:25'
1498: Nethya stiffened suddenly, head cocked as if straining to hear some distant
  sound, then fell lifeless to the ground.
1492: '". . . and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their
  left." —Exodus, 14:22'
1485: '". . . [A]nd gives to airy nothing/ A local habitation and a name." —William
  Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night''s Dream'
1482: '"She grinned at me—a wicked grin. ‘I hope you weren''t relying too heavily
  on that, my dear.''" —Medryn Silverwand, Diary'
1477: '"Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance
  of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue." —Theognis,
  Elegies 1, 215'
1476: '"Full fathom five thy father lies;/ Of his bones are coral made;/ Those are
  pearls that were his eyes;/ Nothing of him that doth fade,/ But doth suffer a sea-change/
  Into something rich and strange." —William Shakespeare, The Tempest'
1474: '"O! call back yesterday, bid time return." —William Shakespeare, King Richard
  the Second'
1464: '"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments
  dropped from day''s caravan." —Rabindranath Tagore'
1463: '"You know what I was,/ You see what I am: change me, change me!"—Randall'
1462: '"Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,/ Mingle, mingle, mingle, you
  that mingle may." —Thomas Middleton, The Witch'
1460: '"An immense river of oblivion is sweeping us away into a nameless abyss." —Ernest
  Renan, Souvenirs d''Enfance et de Jeunesse'
1458: '"Her lips suck forth; see, where it flies!"—Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical
  History of Doctor Faustus'
1456: '"‘Tis now the very witching time of night,/ When churchyards yawn and hell
  itself breathes out/ Contagion to this world." —William Shakespeare, Hamlet'
1446: '"And a horror of outer darkness after,/And dust returneth to dust again." —Adam
  Lindsay Gordon, The Swimmer'
1445: '"High on a throne of royal state . . . insatiate to pursue vain war with heav''n."
  —John Milton, Paradise Lost'
1442: '". . . The ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his
  head . . . he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast . . ." —Washington
  Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'
1441: '"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires./ There is no greater guilt
  than discontentment./ And there is no greater disaster than greed." —Tao Tê Ching
  46'
1440: '"He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must
  pass through the wall of oblivion . . ." —William Faulkner'
1434: '"If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride,/ And hug it in my arms."
  —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure'
1430: '"‘War is no picnic,'' my father liked to say. But the Ants seemed to disagree."
  —General Chanek Valteroth'
1530: '"Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag,
  the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail." —Rudyard Kipling,
  The Jungle Books'
1666: '"When milady was young, the sight of a rainbow would fill her soul with peace.
  As she grew, she learned to share her rapture with others." —Lady Gabriella'
1713: '"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes
  died in our chests as its gears continued turning." —Sevti Mukul, The Fall of Alsoor'
1712: '"I was struck senseless for a moment, but revived when the strange curiosity
  I carried fell to the ground, screaming like a dying animal." —Barl, Lord Ith'
1711: '"Three such creatures stood burning at the crest of the hill. Only seconds
  later, the Fireball struck our front line." —Lydia, Countess Brellis'
1817: '"Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of even lengthe.
  And wonderly deliver, and greete of strengthe." —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury
  Tales'
1815: '"As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden
  in the grass at our feet. ‘Don''t lift your pikes ''til I give the word,'' I said."
  —Maeveen O''Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier'
1814: '"After Lacjsi''s speech, the Knights grew determined to crush their ancient
  enemies clan by clan." —Tivadar of Thorn, History of the Goblin Wars'
1813: '"Those blessed hands could bring surcease to even the most tainted soul." —Sister
  Betje, Miracles of the Saints'
1812: '"It is only fitting that one such as I should die in pursuit of knowledge."
  —Vervamon the Elder'
1811: '"With a great cry, the Goblin host broke and ran as the first wave of Knights
  penetrated its ranks." —Tivadar of Thorn, History of the Goblin Wars'
1810: '"Bathed in hallowed light, the infidels looked upon the impurities of their
  souls and despaired." —The Book of Tal'
1799: '"Your army must fear you more than the enemy. Only then will you triumph."
  —Malga Phlegmtooth'
1797: '"Any scrap of compassion that still existed in my soul was permanently snuffed
  out when they cast me out into the flames." —Mairsil, called the Pretender'
1794: '"I knew it weren''t no ordinary pile of—you know." —Norin the Wary'
1735: '"If you don''t have your health, you don''t have anything." —Proverb'
1737: '"Comes right outta th'' ground. If ya can smell it, it''s too late." —Keevy
  Bogsbury'
1744: '"That was the worst experience of my days, standing there helpless as they
  killed my whole troop." —Maeveen O''Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier'
1746: '"When one has witnessed the unspeakable, ''tis sometimes better to forget."
  —Vervamon the Elder'
1754: '"That phantom prow split the storm as lightning cast its long shadow on the
  battlefield below." —Mireille Gaetane, The Valeriad'
1765: '"It had a mouth like that of a great beast, and gnashed its teeth as it strained
  to reach us. I am thankful it possessed no means of locomotion." —Vervamon the Elder'
1766: '"They are aberrations who have turned on everything we hold sacred. Let them
  be cast out." —Ailheen, Speaker of the Council'
1768: '"Where moments before we were lost beyond hope, the strange, floating lights
  showed us the way and restored our morale." —Vervamon the Elder'
1769: '"The standard cure for leeches requires the application of burning embers.
  Alternative methods must be devised should an ember of sufficient size prove more
  harmful than the leech." —Vervamon the Elder'
1773: '"Their rain of arrows left only myself alive, cowering within a tree hollow.
  They did not even come out to loot the bodies." —Vervamon the Elder'
1774: '"Purity of magic can only come from purity of the land. How can a meal nourish
  if the ingredients are spoiled?" —Sidaine of Savaen'
1780: '"I told him it was just a flesh wound, a wee scratch, but the next time I looked
  at him, poor Tadhg was dead and gone." —Maeveen O''Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier'
1789: '"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?" —Plato'
1791: '"From down here we can make the whole wall collapse!" "Uh, yeah, boss, but
  how do we get out?"'
1792: They attacked in an orgy of rage and madness, but only one seemed as focused
  on killing us as on the sheer joy of battle.
1963: |-
  "You idiot! Never let the spies mingle with the Orcish regulars after completing a mission. Now we'll never get them to fight!"
  —General Khurzog
1996: |-
  "Of course I'm not a spy! The enemy has spies. I am a Scout."
  —Ailis Connaut
1830: '"Where is it written that beasts must cause pain?" —Delif, Ponderings'
1841: '"The worst thing about being a mercenary for the Ebon Hand is having to wear
  a dead Thrull." —Ivra Jursdotter'
1859: '"Ever see a wall drop dead of fright, kid? It ain''t pretty." —Cpl. Dobbs'
1866: |-
  "Those idiots should never have bred Thrulls for combat!"
  —Jherana Rure
1888: |-
  "Dwelling in icy mountain streams near Goblin and Orcish foes, the River Merfolk were known for their stoicism."
  —Sarpadian Empires, vol. V
1898: '"Come back, cowards! Everyone knows Merfolk can''t wield magic!" —Pashadar
  Dirf, Goblin Flotilla Commander, last words'
1901: |-
  "You think you know everything there is to know about battle? You know Orc droppings! Underwater combat is three dimensional. Those thrice-damned Vodalians don't attack in ranks; they attack in schools."
  —Ivra Jursdotter
1900: |-
  "Stalwart Soldiers, you stand against the Homarids for Vodalia and for honor. Your homeland cries out for protection, and the moment has come. Now let your valor shine, and sound the cry to battle. Victory to Vodalia!"
  —Marshall Volnikov
1907: '"Burn it down, you say? Now there''s a stupid idea. What do you suppose will
  become of those overhanging branches, hmm? And then what do you suppose will become
  of us?" —Ivra Jursdotter'
2558: |-
  "Let go your fury, and hone your anger. Become the fist of Freyalise!"
  —Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
2576: |-
  "Ach! Hans, run! It's the Lhurgoyf!"
  —Saffi Eriksdotter, last words
2602: |-
  "Mammoths may be good to ride on, but they're certainly bad to fall off of!"
  —Disa the Restless, journal entry
2616: |-
  "Why do we trade with those despicable Elves? You don't live in forests, you burn them!"
  —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald
2626: |-
  "AIIIEEEE!"
  —Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician
2628: |-
  "Before you release a Woverine from the trap, make sure it's really dead."
  —Lovisa Coldeyes,
  Balduvian Chieftain
2634: |-
  "Overkill? This isn't a game of Kick-the-Ouphe!"
  —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
2648: |-
  "If you'd been there, you would've run from that deer, too!"
  —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
2668: |-
  "Don't look at it! Maybe it'll go away!"
  —Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician
2680: |-
  "I implore you not to forget the horrors of the past. You would have us start the Brothers' War anew!"
  —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic
2704: |-
  "Blasted amateurs! Doesn't the queen think we can fight well enough on our own?"
  —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald
2707: '"These, of all spells, must have common components I can isolate and use."
  —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest'
2708: |-
  "Stand your ground, troops! This shall be our finest hour!"
  —General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox, last words
2393: |-
  "With this marvel, even the weak have a fighting chance!"
  —Arcum Dagsson,
  Soldevi Machinist
2402: |-
  "We were not meant to have such terrible things. They should be left where we found them, if not destroyed!"
  —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic
2536: '"Give me wings to fly and speed to strike. In return, the glory I earn shall
  be yours." —Steinar Icefist, Balduvian Shaman'
2525: |-
  "It was big. Really, really, big. No, bigger than that. It was big!"
  —Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight
2498: |-
  "Get up, blast you! They're attacking! Why are you all so slow?"
  —General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox
2488: |-
  "This is the fun part!"
  —Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician
2473: '"A mind in agony is a sparrow without wings." —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer'
2462: |-
  "Kjeldorans should rule supreme, and to the rest, death!"
  —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald
2724: "\"The fire of justice burns like nothing else.\" \n—Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian
  Chieftain"
2819: |-
  "You know what I was,/ You see what I am: change me, change me!"
  —Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo
2799: |-
  "O! call back yesterday, bid time return."
  —William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second
2828: Harthag gave a jolly laugh as he surveyed the army before him. "Ho ho ho! Midgets!
  You think you can stand in my way?"
2835: '"Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the
  meek." —Ecclesiasticus 3:19'
2845: '"From down here we can make the whole wall collapse!" "Uh, yeah, boss, but
  how do we get out?"'
2846: '"I knew it weren''t no ordinary pile of—you know." —Norin the Wary'
2857: D'Haren stared at the twisted lump of metal that had been a prized artifact.
  The fight was getting ugly.
2885: A regular guest at the Royal Masquerade, Arien is the envy of the Court. She
  appears in a new costume every hour.
2908: |-
  "The Roterothopter is as insidious as it is ingenious. It is one of the few creations of our school that I take no pride in."
  —Baki, Wizard Attendant
2995: |-
  "The Shamans? Ha! They are mere craven cows not capable of true magic."
  —Irini Sengir
2981: '"I hear there are Bears—or spirits—that guard caravans passing through the
  forest." —Gulsen, Abbey Matron'
2953: |-
  "Who needs a spear? Ya break off the horn, and ya stab the fish with it. Easy!"
  —Kakra, Sea Troll
2933: '""Oh, they scream, right enough, and plead, too—but the Baron keeps no mercy
  in his vault of horrors."—Zeki, Reef Pirate'
2913: |-
  "It keeps some out, yes. It also keeps others in!"
  —Grandmother Sengir
2910: '"Beast. Defiler. The source of all my pain." —Ihsan''s Shade'
3083: '"The Guard will forever stand ready. For them, death is merely an inconvenience,
  not an ending." —Chaeska, Keeper of Tresserhorn'
3084: '"When you cannot rely on your sources, trust your own senses. When you cannot
  trust those, you must follow your instincts." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain'
3099: '"At the core of all power is raw passion." —Gerda Äagesdotter,Archmage of the
  Unseen'
3106: |-
  "Far too many of our missing ‘dead' seem to be turning up in Varchild's ranks!"
  —King Darien of Kjeldor
3105: |-
  "Fool! Never believe they're dead until you see the body!"
  —General Varchild
3111: '"All the knowledge of Lat-Nam could not protect its sages from the Brothers''
  War." —Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen'
3110: '"Lat-Nam has bequeathed us its secrets. With them we shall attain true enlightenment."
  —Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen'
3114: |-
  "It cannot be! Soldev crushed, and my machines to blame?"
  —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist
3120: |-
  "Watch for it! Right on its tailfeathers will be a storm from your nightmares."
  —Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain
3143: |-
  "Oh, no—not you again?!"
  —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
3145: 'Kaysa speaks as the Elder Druid, but the Yavimaya recognizes only one voice:
  its own.'
3152: '"It is the work of sorcery. Burn it!" —Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter'
3153: '"The art of war is turning obstacle to advantage." —Jaeuhl Carthalion, Juniper
  Order Advocate'
3162: |-
  "Those mewling Barbarians will cower before my righteous steel!"
  —General Varchild
3163: '"We send our best to battle, but every man, woman, and child will stand against
  Varchild''s butchers." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain'
3166: |-
  "GOTCHA!"
  —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
3173: "\"The only ‘art' these beasts possess is the art of noise!\" \n—Jaya Ballard"
3174: '"Theirs is the art of blood." —Jaeuhl Carthalion, Juniper Order Advocate'
3177: |-
  "Let Balduvia burn to warm Kjeldor's hearth!"
  —General Varchild
3187: '"What tries to crush our spirit only strengthens our resolve." —Lovisa Coldeyes,
  Balduvian Chieftain'
3189: '"Good soldiers rely first upon their training, then upon their instincts."
  —King Darien of Kjeldor'
3191: |-
  "Birds know no borders! Why, then, should we?"
  —General Varchild, in a missive to King Darien of Kjeldor
3190: '"It''s true I ask no fealty of the flocks—but surely we are more than mere
  beasts." —King Darien of Kjeldor, in a missive to General Varchild'
3193: |-
  "Call every able sword to our side. Kjeldor will stand triumphant!"
  —King Darien of Kjeldor
3208: |-
  "Let them send their legions! I will show them that my truth is stronger than their swords."
  —General Varchild
3050: |-
  "And I say north is where I want it to be!"
  —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
3057: '"Look deep into the Grail, and see there what you desire most." —Gerda Äagesdotter,
  Archmage of the Unseen'
3062: '"Nothing has ever broken my heart so much as this—the betrayal of Soldev by
  my beloved machines!" —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist'
3064: '"Humans and machines working together can be fearsome indeed!" —Arcum Dagsson'
3226: |-
  "Be open to the blessings, whatever their form."
  —Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
3298: |-
  "But I signed nothing!"
  —Taraneh, Suq'Ata mage
3320: |-
  "I shall make walls of their flesh, and their blood will by my mortar."
  —Kaervek
3328: |-
  "Once, a Quirion asked why I was so cautious when the day was clear. I told him of the sky-blue hide of the cerluean wyvern, and he offered me double if I could conjure a strong tailwind!"
  —Sisay, Captain of the Weatherlight
3336: '"Whoa-my tail will never fit through that hole!"'
3338: |-
  "Quick, Rhirhok—teach me to swim!"
  —Makht, goblin casualty
3346: |-
  "Turn your back for a second and they just vanish! As if they weren't shifty enough before."
  —Rhirhok, goblin archer
3353: '"Ahh! Opposable digits!"'
3399: |-
  "The lion drank that lake right up! In thanks, he gave Siti the power to speak with lions and make them leave the goats alone."
  —Afari, Tales
3440: |-
  "Fetch the pestridder, Paka—we've got dwarves in the rutabagas!"
  —Jamul, Femeref farmer
3442: |-
  "Big one I,
  One big eye.
  One-eye see
  Two-eye die!"
  —Traditional cyclops chant
3449: |-
  "Pathetic—like I wouldn't know a goblin painted up to look like a dwarf!"
  —Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader
3456: |-
  The pulsing heat of the midday Sun burns in the Lion's eye.
  —Stone inscription, source unkown
3493: '"I will return / with lizard skins for your sandals. Paint your eyes black
  and wait for me." -"Love Song of Night and Day"'
3503: '"Unlike Zhalfir, the griffin needs no council to keep harmony among its parts."
  —Asmira, Holy Avenger'
3249: From jungle to sea, from sea to stone, from stone to field, from field to bone.
  What am I? —Zhalfirin riddle
3551: |-
  "Frozen, we watched the funnel pluck up three of the goats—pook! pook! pook!—before we ran for the wadi."
  —Travelogue of Najat
3597: BOOM!
3593: |-
  "This little prize will cover your head, your spells, your bets, and your behind!"
  —Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader
3687: '"Next!"'
3709: '"And the flamingos said, ‘Get out of our nest—we can''t be seen with the likes
  of you!'' So, the griffin ate them."—Azeworai, "The Ugly Bird"'
3712: |-
  "That does it! I'm going back to hunting chickens!"
  —Rhirhok, goblin archer
3719: |-
  "If it bears wings, I will put it to the skies over Tefemburu."
  —Ruya, Zhalfirin archer
3738: |-
  "Retainer of eternal Sun! Life flash again upon thy wings."
  —"Song to the Sun," Femeref song
3742: |-
  "With Rashida's blades, my guiding vision and the luck of the blessed, today we will free Mangara!"
  —Asmira, Holy Avenger
3943: |-
  "Leviathan, too! Can you catch him with a fish-hook or run a line round his tongue?"
  —The Bible, Job 41:1
3954: |-
  "Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I."
  —Sir Walter Scott, "The Lady of the Lake"
3968: Harthag gave a jolly laugh as he surveyed the army before him. "Ho ho ho! Midgets!
  You think you can stand in my way?"
3975: I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the
  sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"
3988: |-
  "‘I'll show you how to handle the treefolk!' the giant bragged, and he strode off into the forest. Two days later he returned, his face masked in sap and a nest behind his ear. None dared ask who won."
  —Azeworai, "The Treeling"
3992: |-
  "Ach! Hans, run! It's the lhurgoyf"
  —Saffi Eriksdotter, last words
4026: |-
  "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"
  —William Shakespeare, King Lear
4029: |-
  "Fair fight? I'll take survival over chivalry any day!"
  —Tor Wauki, Bandit King
4034: |-
  "Modern Sarpadia's swarming with thrulls. It's a testament to the orcs that they've survived there so long."
  —Elbieta, Argivian scholar
4037: |-
  "Every field watered in warriors' blood is sacred ground. Lay it not to waste, but claim it for our own—for glory, and for Stromgald!"
  —Avram Garrisson,Leader of the Knights of Stromgald
4054: |-
  "O! it is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant."
  —William Shakespeare,Measure for Measure
4055: |-
  "From down here we can make the whole wall collapse!"
  "Uh, yeah, boss, but how do we get out?"
4056: |-
  "When you're a goblin, you don't have to step forward to be a hero—everyone else just has to step back!"
  —Biggum Flodrot, goblin veteran
4058: |-
  "Goblins charge with a deafening war cry. The cry doesn't mean anything—it just drowns out the drums!"
  —Reod Dai, mercenary
4084: |-
  "Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! / Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return."
  —Navajo war chant
4085: |-
  "I fear anything with teeth measured in handspans!"
  —Norin the Wary
4095: The ground itself lends its strength to these walls of living stone, which possess
  the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops,
  providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land.
4109: |-
  "Don't look at it! Maybe it'll go away!"
  —Ib Halfheart, goblin tactician
4121: |-
  "The dead may be beyond the law, but speaking the wisdom of the dead will afford no protection!"
  —Calmont, Aysen bureaucrat
4147: |-
  "‘Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, ‘if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'"
  —Lewis Carroll,Through the Looking-Glass
3819: Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of
  Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging
  craw wurms.
3854: |-
  "Kjeldorans should rule supreme, and to the rest, death!"
  —Avram Garrisson,
  Leader of the Knights of Stromgald
3896: |-
  "O! call back yesterday, bid time return."
  —William Shakespeare,King Richard the Second
4495: '"But you said ''when goats fly!''" Squee whined.'
4504: |-
  "Torahn gore these shifty fishtails! You can't even get close to one."
  —Tahngarth of the Weatherlight
4523: '"Ewww!"'
4538: |-
  Your father has no horns!
  Your mother wears a bell!
  You drink the milk of goats!
  —Talruum taunts
4545: |-
  "If your blood doesn't run hot, I will make it run in the sands!"
  —Maraxus of Keld
4547: |-
  "Glok loved storms! He'd sit an' watch an' laugh through the whole thing. I miss him."
  —Squee, goblin cabin hand
4572: |-
  "These horn-haters say no gods but theirs exist. I say let him find out for himself—right now!"
  —Tahngarth of the Weatherlight
4580: '"Save me from Maraxus," Starke pleaded, "or condemn me to his wrath. Either
  way, do not ignore me!"'
4216: '"As equal were their souls, so equal was their fate." —John Dryden, "Ode to
  Mrs. Anne Killigrew"'
4276: Storm crow descending, winter unending. Storm crow departing, summer is starting.
4281: |-
  "'Twas  when the seas were roaring
  With hollow blasts of wind . . . ."
  —John Gay, "The What D'Ye Call It"
4287: Something soft bumped against the rowboat, then was gone.
4344: Hill giants are mostly just big. Of course, that does count for a lot!
4373: |-
  "‘O miserable of happy! Is this the end
  Of this new glorious world . . . ?'"
  —John Milton, Paradise Lost
4377: '"Join the army, see foreign countries!" they''d said.'
4908: '"Keep them at sword''s length!" Gerrard''s order fell flat as each sliver''s
  talon suddenly grew longer. "Hold on-break out the polearms!"'
4907: |-
  "Hold your position! Leave doubt for the dying!"
  —Tahngarth of the Weatherlight
4895: |-
  "The cannon wasn''t aimed at you!" pleaded Vhati.
  "I''m not sure which is more pathetic," replied Greven, "your judgment or your aim."
4877: Gerrard grinned and drew his sword. "This won't be a fair fight," he called
  to his crew. "They should have brought a second ship!"
4853: |-
  "Taste my horns!"
  —Tahngarth of the Weatherlight
4852: The Predator roared like an unruly beast, and the Weatherlight suddenly listed.
  "No!" screamed Hanna.
4847: |-
  "Such fuss over machines, Gerrard. Remember that you are the prize of the Legacy. Throw away your toys!"
  —Orim, Samite healer
4832: '"I got it! I got it! I-"'
4831: |-
  "Torahn's horns! They've seen us. Now, statue, you must fight to save yourself!"
  —Tahngarth, aboard the Predator
4829: '"Faugh!" snorted Tahngarth. "Why would it make a meal of something like you?"
  Squee looked relieved. "No," he continued, "you''d make a much better toothpick."'
4659: Crovax gazed upon the dead, and for one dark moment he saw a banquet.
4674: |-
  "They share more than their thoughts. We must shatter their link quickly!"
  —Hanna, to Orim
4690: |-
  "Deep devourer   concealed in darkhome
  Shrouded it seeks   all becomes fodder
  Once we swam   alone and asea
  But no more."
  —Rootwater Saga
4721: |-
  "Bitter water   vicious wave
  Shadow-cold shallows   root-made maze
  Home's angry embrace."
  —Rootwater Saga
4723: |-
  "Ugh! When did orcs and fish start having kids?"
  —Gerrard of the Weatherlight
4810: |-
  "Carrion! Keep your distance. My blade will come to you!"
  —Crovax
4737: |-
  "Let's do it again!"
  —Squee, goblin cabin hand
4749: |-
  "Like a sugar stick with wings!"
  —Squee, goblin cabin hand
4778: |-
  "No fair! Since when does a bug get ta munch on me?"
  —Squee, goblin cabin hand
5175: Gerrard studied the globe as Mirri kept watch. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "This
  is Dominaria!"
5165: '"Takara, it''s me!" shouted Starke. It was no use-she obeyed Volrath.'
5149: '"Charge!" A great cry went out, and countless elves and Vec soldiers charged
  up the mountain. Their fury and passion hid the fact that they were horribly outnumbered.'
5110: |-
  "There are times when destiny calls forth a people and demands an action. Now is the time. We are the people. This is our action. Charge!"
  —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves
5257: |-
  "Volrath has killed me. All that remains of me is the scar!"
  —Tahngarth
5247: The assassin sees only throats and hears only heartbeats.
6494: |-
  "So he gots a sword. Big deal."
  "Yeah, it's a big deal—it's a big sword!"
  —Two goblins outside the gates of Trokin
6517: '"You idiots! Turn it around! Turn it around!"'
6615: '"Trade my moose? Sure-when I find a horse that can spear ten goblins at a time!"'
6617: |-
  "I'd hate to see the bird that could get this wurm!"
  —Alaborn soldier
6600: |-
  "This isn't what I meant by ‘facing the heat of battle!'"
  —Jefan, Talas ship captain
6603: |-
  "Goblins cry, soldiers fly.
  Stones fly, soldiers die!"
6590: There goes the neighborhood!
6506: |-
  "Course he ran! I wouldn't want to stare down that barrel, either!"
  —Alaborn soldier
27266: |-
  "no home    no heart    no hope"
  —Stronghold graffito
26660: '"Angels are simply extensions of truth upon the fabric of life—and there is
  far more dark than light." —Baron Sengir'
26643: '"Catch!"'
27257: '"Faugh!" snorted Tahngarth. "Why would it make a meal of something like you?"
  Squee looked relieved. "No," he continued, "you''d make a much better toothpick."'