Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite Quotes

for a purpose without reason

One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.