Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. —Luthe

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”