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 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...
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,...
A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed .
You are a terrifying creature, the Voice told her solemnly. You do not take your place in your father's tent, letting men make your decisions for you. You ride as a man, you fight as a man, and you th...
Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.
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...
Military folk, Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.
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.
Don't die on me, she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me.His eyes flickered open and he smiled. I di...
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?
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
Then I'll Dog him, and I'll catch him, and I'll cage him again,' I said. 'And again, and again, and again, until his patron tires if him and the Snake tires of me.''Or until he kills you,' someone els...
The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE.If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy,Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'EmI Will NEVER Let Them Go.
If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period.Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the...
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...
Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle