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A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.

And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others.

Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

She had learned propriety, which was the same as saying she had learned to trust only herself.

In the morning, coming awake was like drowning.

Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue.

Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

Thiel, tall, troubled, bewildered

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called Vlam

He thinks we're made of money.

His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

Roan, near the standard-bearer. And that's his brother beside

What man can hate or love well when he is drugged?

The Queen of Monsea, in trousers and short hair, looking for all the world like a miniature pirate.

Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.

Waste is Criminal.

In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.

I'm bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.

I'm mostly unflappable, but you've flapped me, monster lady.

Your eyes are beautiful, he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches.

I'll give you a dream," he whispered to her. "A wonderful dream. I won't tell you

It's not fair. It's not fair, she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

We are not made of money.

Don't you feel it, the joy of having an effect on everyone and everything simply by being?

Your horse is named Small.
Yes.
Mine is named Big.
-Fire and Brigan

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it.

Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.

I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

My favorite genre is Beautifully Written Books of Any Genre. Could we make that a genre?

Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.

Generally she avoided mirrors. It embarrassed her to lose her own breath at the sight of herself.

Giddon was younger even than Raffin, strong, and a good rider.

I'll give myself to you however you'll take me,' he said, so simply that Katsa found she wasn't embarrassed.

Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.

I was only testing that you were awake and in your right mind. The sight of you taking a nap against the bookshelf doesn't inspire confidence.

Well, none of it would ever end if she was too afraid for it to begin.

A king who's innocent
of the things of which he's guilty?

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

The power of the rumor mill, if you could feel it as I do, would boggle your mind.

This is a trial about watermelons! Watermelons are invertebrate creatures!' cried Quall.

Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

Po's been sick, you know." "I'm sorry to hear that," he said, with no expression. "Don't be an ass. He's actually been quite unwell.

She hadn't expected to have such an immediate opportunity to practice containing her temper.

My life is an apology for the life of my father.

Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.

I don't think any child could see her father beginning to love someone else and not feel jealousy.

That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?

Waste is criminal. I'll use the power I have to undo what Cansrel did. I'll use it to fight for the Dells.

If he touches you, I'll come in and choke him to death.

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.

Saf keeps a vast range of bullies on hand at all times.

I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly."
"I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper."
"Apparently I am.

Fire's own laughter was a balm to her heart.

For a moment, it was almost as if they were friends again.

In the saddle again, Fire mulled over the commander's trust, prodding it around, like a candy in her mouth, trying to decide whether she believed it.

No man is infallible.

Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people?

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

And he knew nothing of her, if he thought she desired friends

It's only water," she said.
"Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.

She must learn who he was, so that she could know what do do with him.

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?

He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.

People want incongruous, impossible things.

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you. - Po

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.

My range for you is...broader than most.

I forgive myself...today I forgive myself

Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't?

If I wanted to stun anyone at dinner, I'd hit them in the face.

Death pulled Lovejoy against his chest and held him tight, gripping both cat and book as if he expected someone to try to take them from him.

I sense people when they're near me, thinking and feeling and moving around, their bodies, their physical energy.

If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories."
Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.

You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.

Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.

Propelled by nothing more than a drab sense of duty not to die if she didn't have to, Fire turned [...]

Always one of the trials of a new wound: old wounds like to rise up and start hurting again, too.

Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.

But you're better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn't humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn't humiliate me.

It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them, she said.

When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.

The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know.