The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.
She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it w...
I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into...
He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.
Robin: I'm sure you've learnt to bake, but you have not learned to handle Much. The phrases that you need my lady, are No, No you can't, and No, get out of here before I throw something at you.
I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.
Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment.-Hellhound
Little John: I would come too. He might want knocking in a stream to cool his anger.Much: I will come too, to fish him out again, and to reassure him that not all of us have this queer craving for hur...
It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it use...
I believe that the one thing that has come out of this -- extraordinary -- meeting this morning is an awareness that we have, perhaps, been careless about the critical relationship between human and p...
He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.
Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please.
The touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil
At four o’clock in the morning, when the world is full of magic, things may be safely said that may not be uttered at any other time, so long as the person who listens believes in the same kind of mag...
There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?
There was a long pause while she hated everyone impartially: Tor for behaving like a farmer's son whose pet chicken has just been insulted; her father, for being so immovably kingly; and Perlith for b...
The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?
Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but...
Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.
It was of grey stone, huge block set on block;but it caught the sunlight like a dolphin's back at dawn.