Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.

I've been afraid of being Cansrel,' she said aloud to her reflection. 'But I'm not Cansrel.' At her elbow, Musa said blandly, 'Any one of us could have told you that, Lady.' Fire looked at the captain of her guard and laughed, because she wasn't Cansrel- she wasn't anyone but herself. She had no one's path to follow; her path was her own to choose.

Tell me what I can do to help you feel better." Well...I always like when you kiss me... "Do you?" You're good at it. "Well, that's lucky. Because I'll always be kissing you.

Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.

Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.

His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It had been love.

Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.