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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

At last the King’s Champion straightened with a groan, her free hand going to her lower back. “Nobody ever says that, even with healers, your body still adds up your breaks and bruises, then gives you the bill in your mid-thirties,” she said wryly.

He was a god, the greatest of those who ruled two-leggers, but he was no Chaos queen. Her supply of awed terror was used up for today.

Few people are wise enough to know they might not be ready for such a venture. Too many rush to wed, only to discover they know little about what they’re getting into.

Maybe it takes a coward more courage – not less – to do and not do things. Perhaps cowards understand the world so much better than brave folk.

You’re brave, to admit you don’t know everything and then do something about it.

My wondrous book says you’re a feline, and a carnivore, and a vertebrate, and a mammal. I wish them that wrote it could smell around here right now and maybe they wouldn’t call you all those pretty names.

Her tolerance for fools had always been slight, and she was losing the little she had.

Magelet, one thing I have learned is that humans cling to their first knowledge of you, particularly if they have no experience of you once you’ve changed.

Most disasters are fast, and big. You can see everyone else’s life got overturned when yours did. Houses are smashed, livestock’s dead. But plagues isolate people. They shut themselves inside while disease takes a life at a time, day after day. It adds up. Whole cities break under the load of what was lost. People stop trusting each other, because you don’t know who’s sick.

A sudden thought shocked him to the bone. I could leave Carthak when I’m a master. I’d never have to think about the games again.

Myles hugged her tightly, taking care not to bump her wounded arm. “You’re a good lad, Alan of Trebond,” he whispered. “You give an old man hope.” “Nonsense,” Alanna growled, pleased and embarrassed by the unexpected praise. “You aren’t that old. And I’m not that good a lad.

Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they’ll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

There are times in every rider’s life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse...

We’re men, and men aren’t born to stand alone.

It was plain that Nazaam and Gieyat were lovers. I’d like that, Arram thought as he followed Nazaam. To be comfortable with my lover, and laugh together, even when things are terrible. Like I do with Ozorne and Varice.

What was unreasonable about asking those that had the coin to build the kingdom up again? They made enough riches off of us.

What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It’s not giving up your family.

What good is magic, if you can’t use it to help people?

We are what we’re made to be.

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don’t know where I am.

Numair smiled. “Their society is ruled by females. Each pack is led by sisters.” “Sensible of them,” Daine said, grinning up at him.

Horses are calmer people. They also don’t throw things at cats.

Boys worry just as much about their looks as girls do. We only hide it better.

If Cape wasn’t your last name, what was your real one?” I asked, deathly curious now. “Ahhhh,” he complained. “Pincas Huckleburr.

The gods cannot reveal all things; otherwise, where is men’s right to choose their fates? Where is your right to choose?

I did not say I knew swiving well what my spirit called for, and it was not a curst cage!

The wolf who sings alone is not happy.

Me,” she said at last. “You should pick me.” “But you’re a girl.” It was impossible to tell what he was thinking. “So?” she demanded. “Even Captain Sklaw says I’ll be a swordsman yet. I’m as good an archer as Alex, and he’s a boy and a squire. I’m a better tracker than Raoul. And have I ever failed you? Back there, or when you had the Fever – ” “I’m glad you agree.

There were real advantages to having a father who didn’t care what she did. But if the advantages were so wonderful, why did she feel like crying?

Folk in the Lower City do not tell each other how to worship, or if they do, it is not for long.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that’s what I want them to take away.

Don’t we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn’t simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation.

Only the man who wishes to be corrupted will fall into evil ways.

Someday I must read this scholar everyone.

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else’s kill.

You don’t think history gets rewritten, sometimes?

Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.

New learning never hurt anybody.

Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces. You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

The Gentle Mother.” In Ramasu’s soft voice it sounded like a curse. “They took a goddess with a scythe in her hand, striding the rows of grain, and turned her to present the self of a housebound creature.

If I were useful, you wouldn’t know it was me.

Come on, Stork Boy, aren’t you excited?

He is a horse who will burn and bloat and explode in the sun. Put him back in the oven and let him cook until he’s done.

It was like trying to balance on a pair of knife blades. Who had thought of this mad form of travel in the first place? And why had no one locked them up before they passed their dangerous ideas on to others?

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life,” murmured Niko. “They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean’s pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

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