I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver of an old man's voice. 'Things are too full of life in the spring months. In the summer, they're too strong and won't let go. Autumn...' He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. 'Autumn's the time. In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.

Practice makes the master.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.