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...
Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.
And as I watched the dancers moving unheeded around him, an idea formed in my mind, a reckless, useless, stupid idea, but one that promised such fun I could almost hear Bran’s laughter., I realized gr...
We stepped into the very inn in which we’d had our initial conversation; we passed the little room I had stood outside of, and I shuddered. Now we had a bigger one, but I was too tired to notice much...
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,...
The effect of knowing one looks one’s best is enormously bracing.
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...
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...
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...
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.
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.
Is politics just another word for injustice?
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...
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.
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...
In the meantime, do you have any more questions for me? His voice was uninflected, but the drawl was gone. I knew that the time for the political discussion was past, for now, and that here at last we...
I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.
Maybe I'm no longer a dog, but I can still bite!
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...