Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

Without words meaning anything, we stop meaning anything. It's getting to the point where nobody means what they say or says what they really mean.

At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place

Borrow my eyes so you may see your greatness and recognize the gifts that you were uniquely placed on this planet to learn from, to share, and to teach.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

I never knew how high a price one pays for being taken care of.