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One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
The entire center of her life was a blackened waste, its long years not to be recovered nor replaced.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
You are a most excellent lawyer, for a dead man.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
One scarcely knows if he would be of more use to us as a hostage, or set loose to be a very bad enemy leader.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
"An hour will suffice. If it is the right hour."
Paladin of Souls (2003)
The shocked silence that followed was decidedly baffled. And even, possibly, a little thoughtful, if that was not too much to hope.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
He gave me no sign. I was never the sort to receive portents, or to delude myself that I had. Silence was always my portion, in return for my prayers.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
We are all, every living one of us, doorways between the two realms, that of matter that gives us birth, and that of spirit into which we are born in death.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
"Such a perilous concentration of demons would create chaos all around it."
"War gathers on these borders," said Ista. "A greater concentration of chaos I can hardly imagine."
Paladin of Souls (2003)
"The gods would take him and leave me bereft, and I curse them!"
"I have cursed them for years," said Ista dryly. "Turnabout being fair."
Paladin of Souls (2003)
"You must go home eventually."
"I would throw myself off a precipice first, except that I would land in the arms of the gods, Whom I do not wish to see again."
Paladin of Souls (2003)
You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
"I would be considerably more impressed with your god, dy Cabon," said Ista through her teeth, "if He could have arranged one life's worth of simple protection in advance, rather than three hundred lives' worth of gaudy vengeance afterward."
Paladin of Souls (2003)
"...your soul is your own, now, to make of what you will. We are all of us, every one, our own works: we present our souls to our Patrons at the ends of our lives as an artisan presents the works of his hands."
Paladin of Souls (2003)
The gods...the gods may forgive much, to a truly penitent heart."
Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves."
Paladin of Souls (2003)
"And the Bastard grant us . . . in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding."
Paladin of Souls (2003)