Katsa hugged her for a long time, and Bitterblue understood that this was always how it would be. Katsa would come and then Katsa would go. But the h….

Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters..

Suddenly Po shot into the courtyard from the north vestibule whooping. Katsa, seeing him, broke into a run and they tore at each other through the wa….

All right," Clara said. "We have our swordsman, so let's get moving. Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this i….

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

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be….

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock..

His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion..