Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?

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.

...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

People want incongruous, impossible things.

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

Katsa didn't think a person should thank her for not causing pain. Causing joy was worthy of thanks, and causing pain worthy of disgust. Causing neither was neither, it was nothing, and nothing didn't warrant thanks.

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.