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...
If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.
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.
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
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?
Cats aren’t special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do.Sir Myles of Barony Olau
A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.
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...
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...
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.
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?...
Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.
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.
I wouldn't call it tamed, laddy-me-love. The lady of Pirate's Swoop shouldn't be tame.
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...
Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipm...
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...
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...