Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?, she asked instead. Alanna shook her head. No, I don't believe you have. As far as I could tell, you never thought I was right.
He was overconfident, she told him. And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works. You won because you were good he correc...
I wouldn't call it tamed, laddy-me-love. The lady of Pirate's Swoop shouldn't be tame.
If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.
If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.
If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.
Onua smiled. She knew an old grievance when she heard one. Then why wear ’em? Get yourself breeches and a shirt like me. Daine gaped at her. Men’s gear? With folk talking about me all the time as is?...
Scary with you is better than scary without you
That's all this job is, Daine, she explained. Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.
Think selfishly,' Daine said, trying to make these arrogant two-leggers see what she meant. 'You can't go on this way. Soon you will have no forests to get wood from or to hunt game in. You poison wat...
Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it.Evvy and I have an understanding. She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. She tells me the truth, and I...
You don't think history gets rewritten, sometimes?
You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed .
Your place in life you can always change, whether you have the gift or not. But you cannot change what the gods have made you. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be.
A girl nearby muttered,If that's a lady, I'm a cat.Reaching out, Sandry lifted the pitcher of milk from the table. Cradling it in both hands, she walked over to the mutterer.I am Sandrilene fa Toren,...
All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another c...
And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do.Sir Myles of Barony Olau
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
Cats aren’t special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.
Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?
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