“A wager?" I repeated.
"Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ...
"Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define.
"A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning.
"Done," I said.”
― Crown Duel
"Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ...
"Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define.
"A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning.
"Done," I said.”
― Crown Duel
“Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!”
― Magician's Ward
― Magician's Ward
“People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them. ”
― Both Sides of Time
― Both Sides of Time
“When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.”
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“Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.”
― Remalna's Children
― Remalna's Children
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