Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake..

We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I ….

Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too..

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

I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am..

Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'an….

Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and ….

People want incongruous, impossible things..

She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither..

There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life..

How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of figh….

She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had ….

You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?.

You're afraid of your own anger..

And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others..

She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude..

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness..

She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart..

Bacon improved things dramatically..

Roen snorted. "You two have the strangest relationship in the Dells." Archer smiled slightly. "She won't consent to make it a marriage." "I can't ima….

Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat..