Luck is only my lover, not my wife, replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence. Tedious bedfellows, said Sergi.
I think that when small-minded people envy and despise, then they will mock, thinking it their only weapon. I am not, I hope, a small-minded person. I will not mock you. I'll tell you straight to your...
I have to believe he will do as he promised. Yet the truth is that I trust him because of the way he snared my fingers in his. That is the worst reason of all to trust, but my bitter heart will not st...
I had not realized how much anger I held against my heart for all the people who use others as nothing more than tools to build a house for themselves, who wrap chains around others and then claim the...
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...
When acquaintances embrace, one can read the gap between them. When friends, when siblings embrace, no matter how close, there is still an infinitesimal distance, like a layer of molecules, separating...
What is freedom? he asked bitterly, and who is truly free? We are all bound by what we are, and where we come from.Maybe, I said slowly as I considered the turn my life had taken, the lies I had been...
We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.
Was it not Democritus of your own country who said, ‘Well-ordered behavior consists in obedience to the law, the ruler, and the woman wiser than oneself’? Although in the text I read the words were wr...
That is true. But nevertheless, you are like the prisoners in the cave, your legs and necks shackled by your maps and your walls so that all you can see is the shadows thrown by the fire on the wall o...
No, no! I’ll carry the waste bucket. No one will ever suspect Prince Temnos would do that, will they? His grin heartens me. We
Naturalists claim that however much the female may be said to love the accoutrements of fashion and furnishings, it is the male who is driven to display himself.
I’ll take Prince Temnos to the Heart Tavern in the Warrens. Yes, good, that’s where Ro took me after I got him out of prison and where I intend to bring anyone from our household who has escaped. I’ll...