Find something useful to do with your morning,’ she thought to him as she neared her chambers. ‘Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one’s looking...

Of course, it was impossible, in this company, not to think about balances of power. Raffin and Bann glanced at each other now and then, sharing silent agreement, teasing each other, or just resting their...

Raffin and Bann stood together, propped against the wall and against each other, half dozing. At one point, Raffin, not knowing he had one small, curious witness, gave Bann a sleepy kiss on the ear....

Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.

I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it’s a party.

Lloró como alguien con el corazón roto, y se preguntó por qué, si dos personas se amaban, podía experimentarse tanto desconsuelo.

Helda’s been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them to hang myself.””My mother did the embroidery,” Bittterblue said.Katsa clapped her mouth shut...

Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?

She had thought she’d already reached her capacity for pain and had no room inside her for more. But she remembered having told Archer once that you could not measure love on a scale of...

I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It’s a little strange but I don’t think there’s anything I can do about it. Sometimes he’s not the...

Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be.Not all daughters were like their fathers. A daughter monster chose the monster she would be.

You’re the queen, and it’s the queen’s house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he’s highly unlikely ever to be queen.

She understood now that while it had been wrong to kill Cansrel, it had also been right. The boy with the strange eyes had helped her to see the rightness of it. The boy who’d...

It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against...

People want incongruous, impossible things.

Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most determined, most stubborn self-belief. You CAN have faith and doubt at the same...

Do you understand? I don’t want you to do a thing if you don’t understand it.

For now, Lady Queen,” he said, “allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen,” he said, turning a flushed face to hers. “Ask us to do honorable things, so...

I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

But that’s how memory works,” Bitterblue said quietly. “Things disappear without your permission, they come back again without your permission.” And sometimes they come back incomplete or warped

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?’ Archer asked. ‘Because that’s what you very nearly did.

Well then,” Roen said briskly, “are you sleeping?””Yes.””Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?””No,” Brigan said gravely. “I’ve not eaten in two months. It’s a hunger strike to protest...

He thinks we’re made of money.

It’s as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.

What man can hate or love well when he is drugged?

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

She didn’t want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and...

Great! He has indigestion, so let’s torture him with cake.

King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’ hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden’s usual smash and burn technique. We...

I know you don’t want this, Katsa. But I can’t help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I’m afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you’ll…...

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

Tell me.”And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

From the warmth of her fondness for her horse she constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage. She hoped it would be enough.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

Your horse is named Small.Yes.Mine is named Big.-Fire and Brigan

Skye kissed her forehead. “You saved my life.”Katsa smiled. “You Lienid are very outward in your affection.””I’m going to name my firstborn child after you.”Katsa laughed at that. “For the child’s sake, wait for a...

While I was looking the other way your fire went outLeft me with cinders to kick into dustWhat a waste of the wonder you wereIn my living fire I will keep your scorn and mineIn...

Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up at Nash’s feet and dropped from the saddle. The two...

The Lienid fighter is filling your mind with romantic notions.

Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he’d taken her within himself,...

Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you’d reached your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less...

I’d thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I’d thought I could help you fall asleep at night.”He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a...

Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful.

To Garan’s credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing, thanked her for it specifically. “Best dungeons I ever been...

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it’s a party.

It’s only water,” she said.”Tell that to a drowning man,” Giddon said.