This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and...

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don’t you think it’s a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not...

When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.

It’s easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance…after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.–Shin’a’in saying

Once the blinders are off, it’s rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but… Ancaladar ate the horse.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it’s usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

There’s always going to be fighting. People of honor have to be a part of that, because if they aren’t, the only ones fighting will be the ones who don’t care, who have no honor,...

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

So her safe little world would never be safe again… She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

Witch’ is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they’re crazy. We don’t do things like that....

(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only moral fiction of the modern world–because in a mystery, you were guaranteed to...

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they’re good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in...