It is a sad truth, but one acknowledged by any person who can bother to read the law, that the inferior legal status of a woman in Europa means she is best protected by having a powerful family or, la...
Ilya, what do you want? His smile vanished. When he contemplated his vision, his gaze narrowed until Tess could almost imagine it as a single beam, piercing to the heart of the universe, capable of va...
If we stay as we have been, then we will die, just as a pool dries up in the summer if there is no rain. We must change if we want to live. But we must also remain who we are and who the gods gifted u...
I meant that in politics there may be times when it’s expedient to leave someone in power who’s become incompetent, because in a web like that, there are ways to circumvent the damage that person migh...
His brow furrowed in a way that suggested he was calculating my likely ability to be that naive.
Coming onstage for her first entrance, Diana felt transported to some ancient scene. They could have been any group of itinerant actors out making their way along the Silk Road, the famous Earth trade...
A strong man does not need a silent wife.
Because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.
Yana, he said gravely, you must learn the basic lesson that those who have power will use it, and those who don’t must learn to control those who do. You
When you have a full and eager heart in you, you must not go to a man whose heart is empty and weak.
When by the power of the heavens the whole world from the rising of the sun to the setting of the sun shall be at one in peace, then so shall we all be at peace. You may believe that your country is f...
We make ourselves into the net that we throw across the ocean
There’s little enough joy, and far too much pain, in a world like this not to appreciate the beauty that comes your way. He
That was why I kept stealing books out of the parlor and returning them. For the only books I ever took were my father’s journals. Didn’t I have some right to them, being that they, and I, were all th...
That reminds me of a song, said Emilia. The women laughed; the men groaned. But the fire was blazing and the night was long, and folk will want entertainment after the tedium of a day’s work. Emilia’s...
She’s read many books.
She spoke in a caustic tone that would surely have burned out anyone else's tongue had they attempted it.
Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like a rat. If you accept it's existence and the pain it causes you, then you can releas...
No greater bond existed than love sealed by trust.
Narrative gets engineered until we start to believe it has always run that way.