You have to be a little bad to make history.

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.

When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You don't share your life with a woman's body, you share your life with a woman.

...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

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

Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.