That’s the damn thing about falling in love with your second-in-command, and resumed his stride up to the balcony with its row of arched doors, Starhawk unsmiling at his heels. They are with you too l...
It is the blood that feeds the flesh, Ysidro said. We can—and do, at need—live upon the blood of animals, or blood taken from the living without need of their death. But it is the death that feeds the...
Dragonsbane, they called him.Slayer of dragons.Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that.
The room was a magpie-nest of picked-at knowledge, the lair of a tinkerer to whom the universe was one vast toyshop of intriguing side issues.
Maggots from meat,’ quoted John, ‘weevils from rye, dragons from stars in an empty sky.
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.
But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I’ve ever learned about anything—that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious becau...
We are like the whales that live in the sea, he said, civilizations without artifacts, living between stone and sky in our islands in the northern oceans.
Of course I’m frivolous, [Antryg] replied mildly. You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.
The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead a month was seeing him every day at work.
The Dead always find ways, Ysidro said, to get the living to serve them.
She understood that even the worst days contained only twenty-four hours. One did what one had to do to get through them, and afterwards, one slept.
The jury was overwhelmed by the tangle of conflicting tales of Austrian spies, slave-smugglers, mysterious veiled ladies, nameless hired bravos, Italian politics, and enraged divas
Once you pack in all the Lafrenières, Borés, Macartys, Chauvins, Viellards, Boisclaires, Boisblancs, and Lebedoyere connections, even if they don’t have dancing afterward—which they will,
We command the fire and the serpents and the stinging insects, but we cannot wield the power that sends fever away.
She barely hid a smile. That’s a wizard’s answer if I ever heard one. Meaning that mages deal in double talk? His grin was impish. That’s one of our two occupational hazards. And what’s the other one?...
Don’t bargain with them, Jamie,’ said the old man again. ‘Don’t help them, don’t believe them, don’t let them live one moment beyond what it takes to destroy them safely. No matter what they tell you,...
Women so frequently turn out like their mothers I don’t know why I was even surprised.
The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power.
Luke talks about the power that lies in the dark side. The Force isn’t the only thing that has a dark side, Han. And the tricky thing about the dark side is that it’s so easy to use—and it gets you wh...