The young who are male can never resist showing off their knowledge, no doubt because they possess so little.
The problem with meddling, said Charles under his breath, is that for every problem you solve, you create two more.
But in the midst of the monstrous assembly that is slave to fortune, each solitary small figure who linked her hand to another built a chain of loyalty and trust.We make ourselves into the net that we...
We are none of us one thing alone and unchanging. We are not static, or at rest. Just as a city or a prince’s court or a lineage is many people in one, so is a person many people within one, always un...
Now take Prince Temnos to Princess Berenise. We need him in our custody in order to succeed.
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...
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...
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
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
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...
His brow furrowed in a way that suggested he was calculating my likely ability to be that naive.
But the plains do not continue forever, just as happiness and sorrow both eventually come to an end. Their first hint of the highlands was a rough stretch of land pitted with gorges and rugged valleys...
Because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.
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...
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 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...
Narrative gets engineered until we start to believe it has always run that way.