...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.

- Kate Elliott

Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.

- Kate Elliott

Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the vi…

- Kate Elliott

A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes…

- Kate Elliott

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

- Kate Elliott

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.

- Kate Elliott

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

- Kate Elliott

A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness a…

- Kate Elliott

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfel…

- Kate Elliott