“If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good—or evil.”
― Fall of Giants
― Fall of Giants
“My initial impression of her had been totally wrong. The impression that she was this sweet and stunningly beautiful Vietnamese girl who had survived a difficult time in her life, and was, perhaps, still vulnerable. But, now it was different. She was nothing but a paid whore. It took me a moment to analyze it. Totally against my character, but I realized, if only for a fleeting instant, I wanted to take this whore to bed, even though there would be no spice of pursuit, and it would generate no particular tension between us.”
― Treacherous Estate
― Treacherous Estate
“A good sailor weathers the storm he cannot avoid, and avoids the storm he cannot weather.”
― Eye for Eye
― Eye for Eye
“It was as if we played chess after denying me both bishops and knights.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow
“She wanted an extra advantage today, more than she'd had in training with Raoul or knights like Jerel. When the trumpet blared, she told Peachblossom, "Charge."
Muscles bunched under her. The gelding flew at his top speed down the dirt lane, hooves thundering in packed dust. For those brief seconds Kel felt like an army of one. She loved no one so much as her horse.”
― Squire
Muscles bunched under her. The gelding flew at his top speed down the dirt lane, hooves thundering in packed dust. For those brief seconds Kel felt like an army of one. She loved no one so much as her horse.”
― Squire
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