It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real..

I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop." She was crying,….

A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty?.

You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do..

A quote from 'Fire' where Fire projected a thought to her best friend Archer: "Love doesn't measure that way, she [Fire] thought to him [Archer]. And….

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 fee….

Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. "Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath..

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes..

Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention..

That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery,….

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 thi….

I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said. "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called. She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the ….

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?.

To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned posi….

Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful..

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, a….

Children are geniuses..

The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make ….

Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Br….

At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she'd told him just how much she loved him. How much she had to thank him for, ….

Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She did a far better job than I would've done..