The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.

Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.

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

There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.