I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.

The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand.

But you're better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn't humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn't humiliate me.

She couldn't steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again - belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person.

I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them.

Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.