Heir to the Shadows (The Black Jewels, #2)

by Anne Bishop

Didn’t any of them like to dress up?

Dressing up is to make others happy. Dressing down is to do something to make you happy.

By then his energy and useful emotions were tapped out,

He didn’t know what had happened at Cassandra’s Altar, or how that sheet had gotten drenched with Jaenelle’s blood, or what Daemon had done, but he was beginning to understand what it had cost.

Of course, you were a bit younger than I’d imagined, but I wasn’t going to be picky about it.

Let Dorothea have the crumbling ruins of Terreille. She was going to have Kaeleer.

I mean, Kaeleer is going to have to become a crumbling ruin before it can be taken over.