My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine.
A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it’s fun.
And if they don’t believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We’ll do all right.
Ozorne, my precious, where are you? – Rikash Moonsword.
Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift.
Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.
Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They’re very confused people. I know they are because I’ve spent years making them that way.
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
As long as there’s life, there’s hope.
Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die.
If you have to hit – hit low.
I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.
I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
If arrogance were shoes, he’d never go barefoot.
I believe in deeds, not words.
I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don’t.
There are times in every rider’s life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse...
All these things Alanna knew from her father’s books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could.
Turnstall’s view of what men could and couldn’t do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.