Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)

by Guy Gavriel Kay

Amazing, when you thought about it: how quickly-made decisions became the life you lived.

It didn’t end until you died. Life was an ambush, wounds waiting for you.

Be not seduced by cheap sentiment any more than by a heavy hand with spices.

She had no idea what was to become of her life. That would turn into a fear if she stopped to dwell upon it.