I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at...
Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
Always, he whispered. The gods do not always answer, but they are always listening.
All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
A noi mortali, purtroppo, è negato il lusso della licenza narrativa: dobbiamo vivere e andare avanti.
You’ve touched a good many lives, Imriel, Sidonie observed. A good many lives have touched mine, I said in reply.
Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years! Jen said grimly. Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth!
You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children.
When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
She was oh, so very beautiful to me, and her strength and courage and daring vulnerability only made her the more so.
Questions are dangerous because they have answers
Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
It was a truth of the heart and it owed nothing to reason.
It is a human failing, to attribute the best of motives to those we know the least, and the worst to those we love best.
I wanted it, I wanted it all. All the ardent beginnings and the confused between-times and the bittersweet dregs. All of the aches and sorrows, all of the soaring joys.All of it.
I never forgot, never, that it had been he who, with two words, turned my deadliest flaw to a treasure beyond price.
I accepted the commission because the couturieres of Atelier Favrielle relish a challenge more than we fear ought else.
Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.