To Fitz and the Fool, my best friends for over twenty years
The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will.
That was Verity's way. MOnths had passed since we had last spoken but he took no times for greetings. Chade said it was a lack in him, that he didn't make his men feel their importance to him. I think...
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.
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?
It was not that she was a better-tempered person, she decided detachedly. It was that her anger had learned a terrible patience. What good was wasting words on a petty and tyrannical second mate? He w...
It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.
I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.
Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much?
Wolves have no kings.
When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider
We were one thing. Whole.
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...
There are times when not thinking requires all of one's concentration.
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.