“Like Mum and that bastard. You mean Da?Call him what you like.”

“I know Im not an easy She-dragon to. . not fear. Im not afraid of you, Ghleanna. Ive never been afraid of you. To be quite honest. . I think youre amazing. I always have. Since the first time you i...”

“Whats wrong with him?Nothing. Hes just. . just. . Just what?A peacemaker. And shed dropped her voice to a whisper. What would I do with a peacemaker? The same thing I did with a whore.”

“My father helped you with that. . that thing you do? Yes. Your father helped me with that peacemaking thing I do that keeps you happily killing for a living.”

“Please dont hug me. Please dont hug me.But she did. And now Bram had two sets of black eyes glaring at him.Finally, he said out loud, Its not me! I swear! Rhiannon laughed and leaned back from Bram...”

“You off then, Da? she asked.Aye. Too old for all this killing. And to prove that, her father turned and brought his axe down on the head of a traitor that had gotten too close. Spun once more and c...”

“I didn’t think it was possible — but this situation has managed to get worse.” “But you’re so calm,” she observed.“That’s usually when you can tell everything has gone to shit.”

“Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.”

“The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.”

“#NAME?”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”