"Isn't the whole world the handiwork of innumerable pairs of lovers?
And yet you think yourself above all that. You try to fly away from
nature, but where will you find a hole to hide yourself in?"

"Besides beauty, I now credit you with a second quality:
persistence."

"Read me well, and then it is natural law that you'll think twice and
three times before throwing me away.... And now, before we go, we
had better eat."

"Eat?" said Maskull thoughtfully.

"Don't you eat? Is food in the same category as love?"

"What food is it?"

"Fish from the river."

Maskull recollected his promise to Joiwind. At the same time, he
felt hungry.

"Is there nothing milder?"

She pulled her mouth scornfully. "You came through Poolingdred,
didn't you? All the people there are the same. They think life is
to be looked at, and not lived. Now that you are visiting Ifdawn,
you will have to change your notions."

"Go catch your fish," he returned, pulling down his brows.