You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

I don’t know how you’ve managed a tan,” Daydra said, “but you’ll have to keep it up, and talk like a pirate. If you want to work for Momma K, you’re going to be the Sethi pirate girl. You have a husband or a lover?” Kaldrosa hesitated. “Husband,” she admitted. “The last beating nearly killed him.” “If you do this, you’ll never get him back. A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but he’ll never forgive one who goes whoring for him.” “It’s worth it,” Kaldrosa said. “To save his life, it’s worth it.

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.