Don’t we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?
What good is magic, if you can’t use it to help people?
All things change,” she told Alanna frankly. “It does not hurt men to know women have power, too.
It’s a Stormwing,” Ozorne said. “I always wanted one.
It was plain that Nazaam and Gieyat were lovers. I’d like that, Arram thought as he followed Nazaam. To be comfortable with my lover, and laugh together, even when things are terrible. Like I do with Ozorne and Varice.
Come on, Stork Boy, aren’t you excited?
They aren’t expected to understand one another, he replied. The women will learn to flirt over a friend’s shoulder, instead of close. The men will see the women as distant and unknowable. Their friends will be only men. The women will see men as strong and unknowable. Their friends will be only women.
And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from “The Untouchables” to you: “At the end of your shift, go home alive.” She would say, Don’t think about being brave or working hard – just do what you need to do. When you look back, you’ll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.
There were real advantages to having a father who didn’t care what she did. But if the advantages were so wonderful, why did she feel like crying?
Folk who tell the truth don’t think they must keep repeating it. It’s the truth – it’s obvious. Only liars tell it over and over, trying to hammer their like into others’ minds.
I hate those things,” grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring.
He has never been stripped of his voice, so he does not know how it feels to be stripped of it, even a little.
We’ve got to protect Jonathan and Darkness, don’t we?” She swung herself onto Moonlight’s back. “Let’s go, girl.” As one of the last fighters to the point, Alanna could clearly see that the enemy had advanced past the trees, engaging Jon’s men in the clearing around the main path. She glimpsed Jonathan’s silver and sapphire gleaming in the thick of the battle as Darkness reared to fight as well. Myles was beside the prince, with Gary and Raoul flanking them both. The enemy would have trouble.
Well, no, but everyone says they do.” Someday I must read this scholar Everyone, she thought as she bit her tongue to keep from giving a rude answer. He seems to have written so much – all of it wrong.
He is a horse who will burn and bloat and explode in the sun. Put him back in the oven and let him cook until he’s done.
Only the man who wishes to be corrupted will fall into evil ways.
Da says I make a whole loaf from pigeon crumbs.
But I’ve only been at this mage business four years. I have some catching up to do –.
Folk in the Lower City do not tell each other how to worship, or if they do, it is not for long.
I did not say I knew swiving well what my spirit called for, and it was not a curst cage!