Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.

I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life," Katsa said. "Not even to save yours." "Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter. "I'd leave that part out.

Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful.

All right," Clara said. "We have our swordsman, so let's get moving. Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

You're afraid of your own anger.

There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.