I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin’,” she told me. “Have you not bought anythin’ the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it’s all one to me.

The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she’s a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever...

It’s harder to heal than it is to kill.

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka” she asked.”I don’t see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful,” I replied.

Every now and then I like to do as I’m told, just to confuse people.

He’s got courage,” Alex said.”Courage!” Raoul bellowed. “That coward almost kills him and–

Well, laddie, if you’ve let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn’t have had much in the first place.

She’s all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

You didn’t kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn’t kill him.””So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn’t have time to sleep.

Ishabal: “If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?” Tris: “Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when...

We’re on a hunt, Cooper. When you’re on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

Tris: “I was reading.” Sandry: “You’re always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt.” Tris: “Then maybe they shouldn’t talk to me.

Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel.His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits...

I told Ersken, “Lately it’s been like living on the knife’s edge, never knowing which side I’ll fall off on”Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. “Cheer up, Beka. Maybe...

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much–all of it wrong.

Stefan shook his head. Th’ lad’s got guts , he thought. Not much sense, but guts.

Alan, you seem to think we won’t like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you’re different?

This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind’s rosebushes.

Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse...

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: “All...

Never break a promise to an animal. They’re like babies—they won’t understand.

If I have to ‘catch’ a man to get a husband, I don’t want one.

Scummer, pox and wound rot!” roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. “Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and...

Stefan spat. “Oh, aye, he fell. O’ course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li’l tyke didn’t have a chance.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Funfunfunfunfun!

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it.”She looked back at him. “I will one day, sir. I’m getting tired of falling down.

I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp

Sometimes there’s nothing you can do. […] Sometimes they don’t have enough to fight with.

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

Lark: “You shouldn’t yell at her.” Frostpine: “Of course I should. Gods bless us all, Lark, but our Water dedicates would try the patience of a stone.” — Dedicates Lark and Frostpine when the latter...

Didn’t they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

If I say you’re a goatherd’s son, you say, ‘Yes, Lord Ralon.'”Alanna gasped with fury. “I’d as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you’ve been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?

I just want to be a warrior maiden and go on adventures. I don’t want to fall in love,

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

Briar: “So I guess I was the last to know.” Rosethorn: “Of course you are. You’re a man, aren’t you?

There’s plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan,” he told her softly. “And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart.”-George to Alanna

Excuse me,” she said politely. “But you can’t have him. Not yet. He’s going to come back with me.

Sandry: “There has to be something we can do.” Lark: “We’re mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix.” Sandry: “Then I wish I weren’t a mage. What good...

Once she was certain, she didn’t waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she...

And now you’re off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They’ll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you’re about.””Everyone keep warning me about sailors,” I complained....

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I’m not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants...

It’s not just children who need heroes.

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...

We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.

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...

No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or...

Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for...

I’m sorry,” she said humbly. “I haven’t wanted to lie to you.””I should hope so. You’re the worst liar I’ve ever met.” He thought about it for a moment, then added, “–or the best. Now...