It’s always better to attack than to defend,” Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. “Always. Ye don’t win with defense – ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!
If Cape wasn’t your last name, what was your real one?” I asked, deathly curious now. “Ahhhh,” he complained. “Pincas Huckleburr.
That’s all this job is, Daine,” she explained. “Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.
I love you,” he whispered. “If you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
No can always be changed to yes, but it’s very hard to change yes to no.
Without patience, magic would be undiscovered – in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.
It’s harder to heal than it is to kill.
Didn’t they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.
Just because I’m no jaw clacker doesn’t mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.
Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz.
Do we say, Oh now I’m going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?
Horses are calmer people. They also don’t throw things at cats.
And if wishes were pies, I’d weigh more than I do. Sir Myles of Barony Olau.
Alanna didn’t approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
I am not wise, but I can always learn.
Scary with you is better than scary without you.
Oh! I’m stupid as well as insane.
I’m not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you’re going to be.