Touchstone Quotes

“Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together. I am not afraid, he said to himself. “I love you,” he whispered. “I hope you don’t mind.”

“Your spirit was somehow preserved just beyond the border of Death, and your body preserved as the wooden figurehead. Both necromantic and Free Magic would have been involved. Very powerful magic, on both counts. I am curious as to why it was used on you.”

“Not really. I remember what I would not, and forget what I should not. Forgive me.”

“Not a whit, Touchstone. Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.”

“O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees.”