This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.

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.

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

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.

Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences.

Charming. We're going to be murdered in our beds.

If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns.

If a fae sorcerer, or sorcerers, are using necromancy to raise the dead they need to be stopped. No matter what happens, we need to bring a reckoning.--Catherine

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

My handicap? Woods and irons.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.