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

by Lois McMaster Bujold

Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life? When they have all fallen into dust and rubble?

Yet loyalty must run two ways, or else become betrayal in the egg.

How like a man, to change from mask to mask like a player, concealing all intention, yet leave his heart out on the table, carelessly, unregarded, for all to behold.

She could curse a god. She could not curse a groom.