“Im alive, he groaned. But Im not doing a very good job of it.”

“And turnips - endless ruptured turnips.”

“Perrotte frowned. Id like to turn a plowshare into a sword , she said. Id cut our way out of those thorns, and then use it to run my enemies through She bit off her next words and swallowed them. S...”

“The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that its exhausting to get them out in the right order. He glanced up at her. That s...”

“Saint Melors father was Saint Meliau.Was everyone in Bertayn a saint, back in the day?Everyone who didnt murder anyone, maybe, Perrotte said.”

“The shrine I prayed at not to go to university, Sand said.I guess your prayer was answered, Perrotte said.Sand strongly considered throwing something at herbut there was nothing to hand that wasnt ...”

“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.”

“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never ...”

“Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.”