One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, 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.

oh, the heartbreakingly beautifultender weight of being human.

Its me own battle... and I'm seeing me body take on me mind.... BIG TIME!

The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

It seems like people don't learn from the past.