There is something about you, Etta. Something in you that cannot be quenched, by hardship or ill treatment. Your soul gleams like silver beneath a patina of hard use. He is right to love you. Any man...
Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered.
Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.
Now, I've had boys of my own, and I know boys aren't that way. They don't learn, or grow, or have manners when you're looking at them. But turn away, and turn back, and there they are, smarter, taller...
Malta, he said, and smiled. Possibly the most annoying young female I’ve ever encountered. Yet lovely. I named a horse after her. Do you remember?
Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much?
All men value their own secrets far above those of others.
Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.
You never miss the water until the well runs dry.
We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all the parts of me were finally in one place. All the missing bits that would make me a complete... th...
Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.
Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.
The fire of my burning past sent odd shadows snaking ahead of us as we made our way into the storm’s resurgence.
That night I grasped another piece of the puzzle that Burrich had always been to me. For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, You lead and I w...
Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.
Starling tries to seduce Fitz.Be with me she said simply Just for here. Just for now. With gentleness and friendship. To take...the other away. Give me that much of yourself.I wanted her. I wanted her...
Sound seemed muted, and night darker, scent and taste dulled. It was as if the world had been robbed of its brightness. He had left me behind to dwell alone in a dimmed and stale place.
Shame is not a good emotion for a man to feel. It makes him angry as often as it makes him sorry.
Seldom can one hate a person if one understand that person.