The Hero And The Crown Quotes
"She supposed someone must have told her it, sometime, but she could not remember the telling."
"It was a little surprising, even, that the hafor still bothered to treat her with respect, for the fact that she was her father’s daughter was supported by nothing but the fact that her father’s wife had borne her."
"But then, for all that was said about her mother, no one ever suggested that she was not an honest wife."
"Galanna’s Gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please."
"One of her earliest memories was riding in a baby-sack over Tor’s shoulders while he galloped his horse over a series of hurdles; she had screamed with delight and wound her tiny hands in his thick black hair."
"But whenever she decided that it must have been Galanna who first told her the story, she found she couldn’t believe it of her after all."
"She needed slaps, not encouragement, years ago—she needs a few slaps now, I think."
""Father," mimicked Perlith. "It’s true a king’s daughter might be of some use in facing what the North has sent us; a king’s daughter who had true royal blood in her veins.…""
"You shouldn’t sulk, and forget about eating."
"Aerin sighed. Life had been easier when her ultimate goal had been murdering Galanna with her bare hands."
"Aerin was by nature the sort of child who got into trouble first and thought about it later if at all, and Galanna, in her way, was quite clever."
""Aerin," he said, and hugged her gladly. "I have not seen you in weeks."
""It’s lasted this long, why couldn’t it have hung on just a little longer?" Aerin said irritably to Tor."
"He looked at her, feeling a twitch of surprise; in her smile for the first time he saw that which was going to trouble his sleep very soon."
"She peeled out of her fancy clothes and fancy manners and pelted off to the barns at the first opportunity, and thought no more about weddings."
"You would try the patience of Gholotat herself."
"The luck of the gods that Teka had not been watching the day Talat had jumped the fence."
"Someday, I shall be famous in legend and story."
"I am inventing a new way to ride. I don’t use a bridle."
"It’s hard to take them seriously—but they are a serious nuisance."
"I would gladly teach any who gladly would learn it."
"Royalty isn’t allowed to hide—at least not once it has declared itself."
"It was grim thankless work to kill something so small; the kit wasn’t even old enough to scorch human skin with its tiny pale fires."
"Better you had not!" the thing on the wall shrieked.
"Anything powerful is also dangerous, and worth more respect than a silly child’s trick like that."
"I will claim that as my consolation; but evidently I still have not learned to get simple sleeping draughts right."
"If the truth be known, the touch of the sap of the surka doesn’t kill people who aren’t royal either, although eating it will certainly make them very sick."
"I’m afraid you are no longer quite … mortal."
"I was not ready to die yet; very well, I shall live longer than I wished."
"Their ignorance is so great they are terrified by a hint of the truth."
"Immortality was far more terrible a price than any she might have imagined."
"I shall have to give you the mage mark soon."
"Gods preserve me from needing that knowledge ever again."
"It would be nice to claim that I knew this was going to happen all along."
"I’m wearied to death from dragging you backward through the centuries by the heel."