You turned into a hero when I wasn’t watching.
You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.
Folk caught up in a riot aren’t our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.
I believe that we haven’t begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they’re capable of.
Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.
So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That’s the world.
Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.
Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you – and you won’t let them do anything for fear you’ll be hurt. That’s selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?
You’ll see. I’m as good as any boy. I’m better. – Kel.
I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it’s just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.
If I have to ‘catch’ a man to get a husband, I don’t want one.
Men died as she watched, and they didn’t care about what they had fought for.
If I were useful, you wouldn’t know it was me.
Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces. You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused.
I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.
There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.
Tortall and the Queens Riders!
She glared at him. “Why are you forever asking hard questions?” He smiled. “Sooner or later you’ll have to be able to answer one.” Daja shoved him, grinning.
When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.