Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours.

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.

A kiss for luck, demoiselle?" It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.

I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.

I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.