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1 " Life was a destiny waiting to be seized. "
― Karen Azinger , The Knight Marshal (The Silk & Steel Saga, #5)
2 " For Honor and the Octagon! "
― Karen Azinger , The Steel Queen (The Silk & Steel Saga, #1)
3 " An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men. "
― Karen Azinger , The Assassin's Tear
4 " All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward. "
5 " Careful, mother, or you could end up dangling in another's webs. "
― Karen Azinger , The Flame Priest (The Silk & Steel Saga, #2)
6 " We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery. "
7 " Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten. "
― Karen Azinger , The Skeleton King (The Silk & Steel Saga, #3)
8 " In the beginning there was only Darkness. "
9 " Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge. "
10 " Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control. "
11 " Desire is often the greatest poison. "
― Karen Azinger , The Poison Priestess (The Silk & Steel Saga, #4)
12 " Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form. "
13 " Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time. "
14 " Always give the rabble something to love and something to hate. "
15 " Splendor was the decree of the day. "
16 " Courage comes in the form of a girl. "
17 " Taken to the highest form, description should be both a window to the world and a mirror reflection the heart and soul of the point-of-view character. "
― Karen Azinger , Power Writing: Make Your Genre Fiction Soar
18 " From the moment we are born, we are swaddled in stories. "
19 " Stories pervade our lives. This inundation of content makes us all export story listeners, or expert story readers, but only a few of us dare to become expert story tellers. We dare to add our tales to the collective memory of mankind that stretches back to early cave paintings. "
20 " Themes are the very souls of stories. "
