I endeavor to be serious and you will not take me seriously
His readiness to answer my questions caused my mind to glitter with new ideas, like a fountain in the sunlight. I was suddenly eager to try my own theories of government, formed during my half year of...
Here I stand, regretting our missed opportunity to walk. A year ago I would have happily run up in the hills, whether it rained or not. And I was thinking that I could go out, in spite of the weather,...
He said the proclivities for indulging in gossip stems from the same impulse as the reading of novels, only gossip touches on real people. Therein lies the harm.
For the first time, I comprehended that love, at least for me, had nothing to do with sex.
Do you think he’ll make a good king? I asked.Again she seemed surprised. Yes, she said. But then I’ve known him all my life. I thought.
Curse it, Bran said the next morning, standing before the fire in shirt and trousers with his shoulder stiffy bandaged. You think this necessary?He pointed at the mail coats lying on the table, their...
By then the man had returned and set the kettle among the embers. Then he looked up, paused, then picked up his share of the bread and reached over to put it in front of me.That’s yours, I said.You ap...
But after a time even my temper tantrums have to give way to rational thought, and I faced at last what ought to have been obvious from the very beginning: We’d lost because we were ignorant. And of t...
Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.
As we made our way steadily northward, their spirits lifted at the prospect of home, and leave-time to enjoy it. From remarks they let fall it seemed that the Marquis had had them on duty day and nigh...
As soon as we’re born, we become a part of patterns, the intimate ones we create with those we live among, and the patterns so large that it takes a lifetime to perceive a fragment of the possibilitie...
As soon as I reached my room I took out the Marquise’s letter and reread it, even though by then I knew it word for word. It seemed impossible that Branaric’s arrival on the same day--with Shevraeth--...
As I trod down the hall, I made and discarded plausible excuses. When I reached the tapestry I decided against speaking at all. I’d just take a quick peek, and if the livery was Merindar, then I’d hav...
AFTERWORDAnd so I come to the end of my tale. I look through my window at the early buds of spring and think of placing this little book on the shelf here with all the other memoirs of queens and king...
I thought indignantly, then sighed. Of course, I managed to find enough coin to write to Ara’s family, and to obtain through the father the name of a good bookseller. But the first was an obligation,...
You, there, girl! Halt!Who in the ever halts when the enemy tells them to?Of course I took off in the opposite direction, as fast as I could.
You, there, girl! Halt!Who in the ever halts when the enemy tells them to?
You think Arthal Merindar wants to be queen, then? I asked, and again thought of my letter and why she might have written it.Unbidden, Shevraeth’s words from the day before our departure sounded in my...
You don't look at the problem all at once, or it's like being caught in a spring flood under a downpour. You tackle the problem in pieces...