Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

Divine grace is available for each one of us.

The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.

... scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"