Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)

by Lois McMaster Bujold

“Will your seneschal also serve as your master of horse, as he did for his late brother?

Haha - Liss! Or Goram!

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Haha - perpetually puzzled at Ista’s former life and its accoutrements.

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“I’m not going back to Valenda. I’m going to follow the army into Jokona to hunt demons for the Bastard,”

“Safety has little to do with the god’s chores.”

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“Aye—anyplace in Baocia but Valenda

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it won’t please her as well as a higher household, but perhaps she’ll get some satisfaction out of parading her former glories.

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She doesn’t batten, you know; in certain narrow ways, she makes herself quite useful. It is sad, though, that she herself destroys the gratitude that ought to be her reward.”

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“Sera Annaliss dy Teneret,

Haha - so he can marry her.

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GORAM

The sort of fellow whose funeral’s orations are all on the theme of Well, that’s a relief.”

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“No. I saw.”

When she returned the piece of his soul, creepy. Ch. 27 p. 479.

Goram the groom . . . was a hundred times better a man than Goram dy Hixar will ever be.

Lord Illvin thought I was overwhelmed with joy when I fell to my knees before you in the forecourt. It wasn’t joy that knocked me down. It was shame.”

your soul is your own, now, to make of what you will.

“If it is so, I am too marred, Royina.” “You are unfinished.

Ch. 26 p. 450

You have been as god-touched as any here; do not despair of yourself, for I think the gods have not.”

“I offer you an honorable new beginning. I do not guarantee its ending. Attempts fail, but not as certainly as tasks never attempted.”

Haha - Goram tended him in his sleep.

“Once, He borrowed your face to speak through.

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“Out of season they may be, but I think they are not a disaster. I think they may be a gift.

Haha. Discrete and unobtrusive.

“I always feared it would take divine intervention to find me a lover . . . I do believe I was right.”

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bittersweet Ista.

She couldn’t help it; she giggled.

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What might her pilgrimage be like if, instead of dragging a lot of tired guardians out on a road that suited their old bones so ill, she could travel with people who laughed? Young people, not brought low by old sin and loss? People who bounced? Ch. 2 p. 37 “When the man arises who can make you laugh, solemn Ista, angry Ista, iron Ista, then will your heart be healed. You have not prayed for this: it’s a guerdon even the gods cannot give you. We are limited to such simples as redemption from your sins.” The Bastard to Ista, ch. 11 p. 188.

Ajelo dy:

Annaliss

Arbanos, Illvin dy:

regarded as a demon in Quadrene theology.

Pejar:

Quadrene:

Quintarian:

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