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“You wear so much armour by daylight that, by night, you can carry it no longer. By night, you are only flesh. And even flesh of a queen is prone to fear”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Each of her words was the skip of a stone across a lake, forming ripples of emotion. The Queen of Inys could not cast illusions, but her voice and bearing on this night had turned her into an enchantress.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed-- but never think you are the night.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Art is not one great act of creation, but many small ones. When you read one of my poems, you fail to see the weeks of careful work it took me to build it—the thinking, the scratched-out words, the pages I burned in disgust. All you see, in the end, is what I want you to see. Such is politics.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Yes, and I suppose she wore a red gown for her meeting with the Saint. I suppose she was as clean as a licked kitten and smelled of rosemary.” When Kit grimaced, Melaugo said, “You have not seen death, my lord. You have only seen the mask we put on it.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
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