There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.
The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
The god inside the man glanced at Aly. This is your chessboard, I believe, my dear. Aly beamed at him. So it is. And the game begins.
The Chamber is only a room, though a magical one, and you will enter it when the time comes. Duke Roger is only a man, for all he wields sorcery. He can be met and defeated. But you, my daughter - lea...
Ishabal: If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles? Tris: Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass w...
Dale: No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met! Goodwin: No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say. — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept mone...
Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.
We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.
Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?The Prince turned. Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'...
Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan, he told her softly. And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart.-George to Alanna
Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
Locks are for the unimaginative.
Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.
Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.
Does your ma know you're this silly? she demanded tartly.He nodded, comically sad. The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But — with an exaggerated change of mood — I send her plenty of...
At the house, the gathering broke up quickly. Sarai announced that she had a headache and needed to lie down. Without her to hold them together, the young nobles chose to go home. The gloss had been s...
As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger.-Numair Salmalin
All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could.