20 quotes
Nothing is "always," my dear. Except the greater truths, one of which is that power begets politics, and politics are more dangerous than war because there are fewer rules.
Inda (2006)
Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.
A Stranger to Command (2008)
Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous.
The Fox (2007)
'What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?'
Remalna's Children (2011)
'Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?'
Remalna's Children (2011)
Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?
Crown Duel (1997)
'Probably. That doesn't make you into one.'
Remalna's Children (2011)
He’d spent his entire exile schooling himself to face that he would never get what he wanted. People didn’t, sometimes. So you made a life as best you could.
King's Shield (2008)
If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.
Crown Duel (1997)
What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.
The Fox (2007)
Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.
Remalna's Children (2011)
I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
Crown Duel (1997)
If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, and how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people.
Crown Duel (1997)
War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.
Treason's Shore (2009)
Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.
King's Shield (2008)
'That's not good, that's triumph.'
Remalna's Children (2011)
I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.
Treason's Shore (2009)
'What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?'
'Life is a play, isn't it?”
Remalna's Children (2011)
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.
Crown Duel (1997)
It is a shame when we must regard a people as an enemy. It is a shame and a regret when the two peoples share so much. And it is a shame, a regret, and a tragedy when those peoples meet as individuals and find much to admire.
King's Shield (2008)