I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the ground, and you turned away from me and cried against your horse. Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don’t you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening.

It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.

I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.

He considered her seriously. "Well. And that's easy," he said. "My Grace will protect me from him, And I'll protect you. You'll be safe with me, Katsa.

Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.