There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

- Mary Hoffman

How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked. 'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you …

- Mary Hoffman

My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna. "I don't think so. I think it might be treason to kill a duke," sa…

- Mary Hoffman

If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have take…

- Mary Hoffman

I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I pro…

- Mary Hoffman

We are in a tight corner, now, I agree. But we have been in tight corners before and come out of them. You have to be brave a little longer.

- Mary Hoffman

I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.

- Mary Hoffman