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61 " We’ll smell of fish forever,” I said. “That would be nice. "
― Kate Elliott , Cold Magic (Spiritwalker, #1)
62 " No greater bond existed than love sealed by trust. "
― Kate Elliott , The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran / An Earthly Crown / His Conquering Sword / The Law of Becoming (Jaran, #1-4)
63 " But in life, every moment can be said to be critical; all is revealed and concealed, created, maintained, and destroyed in the great dance of time. "
64 " Now take Prince Temnos to Princess Berenise. We need him in our custody in order to succeed. "
― Kate Elliott , Poisoned Blade (Court of Fives, #2)
65 " I’ll take Prince Temnos to the Heart Tavern in the Warrens.” “Yes, good, that’s where Ro took me after I got him out of prison and where I intend to bring anyone from our household who has escaped. I’ll meet you there.” Without "
66 " No, no! I’ll carry the waste bucket. No one will ever suspect Prince Temnos would do that, will they?” His grin heartens me. We "
67 " But if the gods only cursed us, then we would hate them. And if they only blessed us, then—well, then we’d care nothing for their laws because we’d respect nothing but our own pleasure. "
68 " But the plains do not continue forever, just as happiness and sorrow both eventually come to an end. Their first hint of the highlands was a rough stretch of land pitted with gorges and rugged valleys that were barren of cover and composed of rock as stubborn and sharp and unyielding as a saint. The jaran playfully called it krinye-tom, the little mountains; Tess called it hell and wondered what the big mountains were like. "
69 " That is true. But nevertheless, you are like the prisoners in the cave, your legs and necks shackled by your maps and your walls so that all you can see is the shadows thrown by the fire on the wall of the cave. You think they are the truth, but they are only a shadow of the truth, which lies—” He gestured to the sky and the plain and the distant spiral curl that was the growing city of Sarai. “—out here, under the gaze of the sun and the moon and the stars. "
70 " Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like a rat. If you accept it's existence and the pain it causes you, then you can release it'. "
― Kate Elliott , Spirit Gate (Crossroads, #1)
71 " First and foremost, any great empire thrives on movement: stable lines of supply, of trade, of information. This movement must be unobstructed for officials on imperial business, and monitored and restricted for others on a scale that varied depending on the necessity of these functions to imperial strength and the likelihood of such restrictions causing dangerous levels of dissent. "
72 " Ilya, what do you want?” His smile vanished. When he contemplated his vision, his gaze narrowed until Tess could almost imagine it as a single beam, piercing to the heart of the universe, capable of vaporizing any object that stood in its path. “The world. "
73 " He laughed. “But I love to ride, just as—as fire loves to burn. I love to see the mountains in the winter, the sea and the northern hills in the summer. Would you live forever in one place, never seeing another? "
74 " Most things are possible, if one decides they are. "
75 " She’s read many books. "
76 " Narrative gets engineered until we start to believe it has always run that way. "
― Kate Elliott , The Very Best of Kate Elliott
77 " In truth what had drawn my eye was the rear view of a young man stripped to the waist and plying an adze along a beam. I could not help but admire his muscled back. "
― Kate Elliott , Cold Fire (Spiritwalker, #2)
78 " Then he strode toward me as if certain I was about to bolt and he must catch me before I did so. "
79 " Words flooded like the storm's surge in a wild burst of anger that took me utterly by surprise. "
80 " That was why I kept stealing books out of the parlor and returning them. For the only books I ever took were my father’s journals. Didn’t I have some right to them, being that they, and I, were all that remained of him? "