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

by Lois McMaster Bujold

You can’t solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn’t true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.

I want nothing of the gods. I’ve had their gifts before.

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.