The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

by Lois McMaster Bujold

How strangely we are blinded by the surfaces of things.

“I just dress badly. I quite like wealth.”

“I’ve seen your integrity in action. It…widened my world.

Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.