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“Someone always profits from war.
love and commerce were nearly the same thing
The man is a pig with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. In fact, he gives pigs a bad name.
“Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must rescue my horse from a brothel.
Not a sentence I ever thought I’d have to say aloud.
as a doctor and a courtesan they share the same knowledge: that kindness is rare
He certainly could not imagine the depths of rage and hatred she was capable of; she did not think anyone could. She has trained herself over all these years to keep those feelings hidden, never to let them show on her face, to always be smiling like a good girl should.
“If not now, when? If not me, who?”
(a Sorcerer-Queen who had magicked up ten thousand cats to be the attendants at her wedding).
Alas, How Much I Thought I Knew of Love, and Yet How Little I Know.
“I asked you because when I am not with you, Lin Caster, I feel as if some part of me has been torn away. I feel as if I am bleeding, insensible with the pain of a wound no one can see save myself. When you are with me…It is the only time I feel whole.”
“Everyone’s an idiot,” Kel said. “Some people pretend better than others.”
Ji-An, as usual, looked as if she were busy thinking about all the people and things that she disliked.
