It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said..

There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind… She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parti….

It humbles me, but it doesn't humiliate me..

I’m as old as both of you,” she said, even though she suspected she wasn’t, “and I’m smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can..

A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized..

It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said..

He thinks we're made of money..

Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of..

You're beautiful this morning," Archer said, stopping before her, kissing her nose. "You're impossibly sweet in my shirt." That might be but she felt….

That was a perfectly reasonable explanation," she said grumpily. "Perhaps my advisers don't lie to me." "Isn't that what you'd want?" asked Giddon. "….

Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love..

There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk..

I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer ….

While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste of the wonder you were In my living fire I w….

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did..

Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites, and has it ….

When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them..

But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people..

I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth to say somethi….

Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters..

Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers..