You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

For Hanalea the Warrior!

But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he could clean it up for his little sister. Then he remembered that Mari was dead and had no need of dollies anymore. Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like a hammer blow.