Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

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.

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

I really like going to see movies. I know that's super boring but it's true!

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.