We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about...
Briar: They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn. Rosethorn: Al...
Sandry: I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway.Daja: If you know, you can stop it.Sandry: Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning.
Tortall and the Queens Riders!
If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one? I asked, deathly curious now. Ahhhh, he complained. Pincas Huckleburr.
I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yo...
Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male – I hesitate to say ‘man’ – or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations...
It's always better to attack than to defend, Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. At...
Ah, Gary said dreamily. 'Free time.' I've heard about that. Don't fool yourself, Fire-Top. What with extra hours of lessons for punishments, the extra work you get every day, free time is an illusio...
New learning never hurt anybody.
You're more trouble than you're worth. I'm a girl. That's my job.
Sir, people never wanted me to make it to squire. They won't like it any better if I become a knight. I doubt I'll ever get to command a force larger than, well, just me.' Raoul shook his head. 'You'r...
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life, murmured Niko. They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.
I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
He had learned a great deal while he was there, it was true. In particular, he had found that he wasn't certain he could stay in a country where slavery was practiced. He had always thought he would m...
Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
We're just frisking like little captive lambkins.
Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
I knew it! he cried, jubilant. I thought 'twas you, but there's more of you now. You should've seenthe likes of her, boys, he said, turning towards the other convicts as he pointed at Kel. We was all...
You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart.And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.