I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright...
He paced the room like a caged tiger, splendid in his wounded anger.
Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
For every victory, Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, there is a price.
By morning, Joscelin was resigned. You know, betimes I think you are a little mad, Imriel no Montreve, he said to me in the courtyard outside the stable, holding the Bastard's reins.You never said tha...
Always, he whispered. The gods do not always answer, but they are always listening.
A little truth seasons a lie like salt.
Years ago, I had a teacher who taught me that all ways lead to the Way, I said slowly, thinking. That there is a great truth behind all the truths of the world, and the faces of the gods are masks tha...
We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now
There’s glory in it, he acknowledged. Dagda Mor! It’s why I like to fight. When the battle-frenzy fills you, you feel like a god, I think. He paused, remembering. But then you hear a friend’s voice be...
There's some sort of Soothsayers' Code that prevents soothsayers from soothsaying on a day-to-day basis, when it might, you know, avert this kind of ordinary, everyday tragedy. Something about the law...
There were barbs on the words, his formal address. I endured them in silence and watched him go, leaving me alone with the remorseless pleasure of my pain.
There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcom...
The gods use their chosen hard, but reveal little to them.
Take your happiness where you find it, children, and don't ask too many questions. Life is too short and uncertain to do otherwise.
Quincel de Morhban received me in his garden, something I never would have suspected, from either the man or the place. It was an inner sanctum, like Delaunay’s, like I had known in the Night Court, o...
Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty… and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our s...
On my knees, I touched the tip of my tongue to my lips, catching a drop of his seed. Pleasure-chamber. My very skin shivered, anticipating the lash. As you wish, my lord, I whispered. It is not needfu...
Men will heed words spoken from one in a position of authority that they disdain from other sources.
Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.