Brace up. We’re not about to embark on a duel to the death over the dishes.
How about writing to your brother? Oria asked at last.Bran is good, and kind, and as honest as the stars are old, I said, but the more I read, the more I realize that he has no political sense at all....
Though few had seen him go, his leaving seemed to constitute a kind of subtle signal, for slowly, as white wore on, my guests slipped away, many of them in pairs. Elenet left with the Orbanith family,...
No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you're good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much.
I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really sa...
Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?They don't make songs when the good lose, I muttered. They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs...
I’d been proud of the parlor, over which I had spent a great deal of time. The ceiling had inlaid tiles in the same summer-sky blue that comprised the main color of the rugs and cushions and the tapes...
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
A wager? I repeated.Yes, he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ...Stake? I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define.A kiss. My first reaction wa...
When in doubt, be ridiculous.
All I can report is that I felt pretty sick, nearly as sick as I’d been when I fell into Ara’s chickenyard. Sick at heart as well, for I knew there was no escape for Meliara Astiar after all; therefor...
Act'. How many good people do you really know? I discount those who mouth out platitudes for the edification of the young, and who truly are 'good', whatever that means?What a strange subject, and fro...
We’ll burn those old clothes, my lady--they’re ruined. And she pointed to where she’d laid out a long, heavy cotton shirt, and one of the blue and black-and-white tunics, and a pair of leggings. Rense...
The coach slowed. A moment later the door opened.Countess, someone unfamiliar said.Feeling hot and cold at once, I slid from my pillow seat to the floor of the carriage and pushed my left leg carefull...
So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.
Innon and I, who were seated side by side at the far end of the long table from Uncle Darian, tried to outdo each other in snobbish manners. I don't even know how it started. I was conscientiously lif...
I just wanted to see if you traitors would dare to face me, Galdran said, his caustic voice making me feel sick inside. Sick--and angry.The Marquis bowed low over his horse’s withers, every line of hi...
I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.
But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.
Though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we’d do a better job of it.