“My lady, I did not think you could answer it, when I took you from your home without your leave, and set value only on your gift. But I am answered truly. You have given fair return for insult thrice over and set your worth: higher than my life and all my kingdom and all who live therein, and though you send my people to the fire, I can claim no debt to repay. It is justly done.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“I'd chosen- not the lesser evil, but the less immediate one.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“No one had ever shouted at me in my life: my mother with her quiet voice, my gentle father. But I found something bitter inside myself, something of that winter blown into my heart: the sound of my mother coughing, and the memory of the story the way they'd told it in the village square so many times, about a girl who made herself a queen with someone else's gold, and never paid her debts.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“My girl, my brave girl had done this. She had gone and come back bloody and she had brought us back the spring. And she had come back, she had come back, which was worth all the spring and more for me.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
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