Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen, " he says in response.

That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face.

A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.

I know there are things you aren’t telling me. Big things…Sir, I will find out. I only hope your reasoning is good enough for me to forgive you.

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

Power must never be trusted without a check.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.