It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.

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

Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.

Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.

People want incongruous, impossible things.