RotE quote game...(spoilers all books)

[Farseer]

A page count?! Crikey 'thul beings, no way! I couldn't even do the chapter or the physical placement within the covers!

I'll bite with the 'which book and when' though...

I know at least two people who definitely said this - Caolwn Festrew and Grag Tenira - and I have a very, very strong feeling that Jani Khuprus also said it.

The first was in SoM when Caolwn first met with Ronica in her home and Ronica had come up short with the payment for Vivacia. The second was in...TMS ... (?) when Grag was speaking with Althea and worrying that it could be Althea who would be forfeit for the payment, and not Malta. As for the third, it would have been when Jani went with Caolwn to speak with Keffria and Ronica about the dream box that Malta had opened. Erk! I can't remember which book! Was it before or after the conversation Althea had with Grag?? Before? I'll say Jani also said it in SoM?

My brain's fried!

As for the other quote, I'm not settled on anything yet....though now that I think of all of the 'grief' moments, I'm leaning toward Ephron's death for the time being. Really, that was THE catalyst for everything that happened in the books...including Althea's loss of Vivacia. If Ephron hadn't died, she would not have lost her.

I'm off for a bath and a resumption of my SoM re-read. It's been a couple of days and I'm stuck wallowing in the good stuff that's happening on the Treasure Beach of Others' Island with that blasted Kennit!