Swordheart Quotes
"I am not fleeing back to a hunk of metal and letting you freeze. I am your guard, lady, as long as you wield the sword."
"The dead aren't saints, merely because they're dead."
"I don't propose to buy one in the middle of the night, my lady."
"If they cannot hold their beasts, they deserve to lose them."
"Is it really dying? I mean, you're still here."
"For a moment, he could almost feel the presence of two people behind him. Something more than memory, less than ghosts."
"But they were gone now, and Sarkis’s only ally in this land was a middle-aged woman fleeing from her family."
"It was cold. Not the wracking, bone-chilling cold of the Weeping Lands in winter, but cold enough to make him fold his arms and tuck his hands underneath."
"I suppose if I must escort her to a nunnery, then so be it. Great god help me, then I’ll be servant to a nun."
"Her hands, when she bandaged the slash on his arm, had been work-roughened but kind."
"No sense in borrowing trouble. We haven’t even gotten free of her relatives yet."
"I am hundreds of miles and a number of years from the lands that I know."
"I don’t know why not. You ask too many questions, but you have not struck me as overly stupid. Merely…easily distracted."
"I am not her lover. I am not her kinsman. I am certainly not her mother. I am being an ass."
"She’s about to be a very wealthy, very respectable widow, and you’re not even human any longer. All you’ve got to offer is a battered old body covered in scars."
"I have a great deal of experience skinning my enemies."
"I will attempt to keep the stabbing to the bare minimum required."
"I don’t want you to suffer because you think you have to keep me around."
"Rats are smart and they travel with humans, but they are neither our servants nor our prey."
"I suppose I’ll find a church to take me in. Without a payment of some sort, I can’t hope to join a nunnery as anything but a servant, though."
"I am not tired of you. You saved me. I’m grateful."
"The Rat’s mercy is a given. It’s the other gods we need to worry about."
"It's not like I want you to die! I don't! I think it's awful! But if that's what you want and it's been hundreds of years and maybe the rune can fix it, then—"
"It's just the principle. What do we do with the horses?"
"I cannot believe that your people have rogue mountain ranges roaming about and have not dealt with it!"
"What, bits of your countryside don't get up and move around to suit themselves?"
"I wish I knew why they were so obsessed with us…"
"Farms are far more alarming places than I realized."
"This journey has simply been very hard on bedding."
"I’ve killed hundreds of people—possibly by this point thousands—and I’ve never had this much trouble with two dead bodies before."
"Humans can't smell, but a fish-lady isn't completely hopeless."
"It's a good idea, anyway. They’ll know that they’re missing once the horses show up, and they’ll probably guess they’re dead before long, but there’s no reason they’ll suspect us over anybody else on the road."
"No, but…whoever owns these trees didn’t do anything to us!"
"Humans talk too much. There’s a wisdom for a human’s book, rat-priest."
"A gnole thinks humans have lost their damn minds."
"I do wonder if you’d be hungry if you were starved until it became a form of injury, then went back in the sword for an insufficient time to heal…but I have a philosophical objection to testing that."
"I don’t know any more," sighed the priest. "It’s just the principle. What do we do with the horses?"
"No one is claiming that she should be turned out into the cold."
"I have guarded her as I would my sisters. No one will offer her disrespect in my hearing, man or woman, or they will answer to me."
"I don’t know what changed that, but clearly that woman had something to do with it!"
"We defeat ignorance with knowledge and training."
"I don’t know what it is. I fear that I may have undervalued it."
"It’s important to celebrate the victories. They are too few in life."
"Are you sure you don’t mind going to see my nieces?"
"I’ve been rejected before. You don’t need to drown yourself to convince me."
"Do you think that will stop me? Give the word and I’ll hunt him across the great god’s hells and tear his soul out through his bowels."
"I don’t think it occurred to him to take longer. Or um, that he was capable, really."
"A man would have to be half-dead not to be interested in you."
"What in the great god’s earth has come over me?"
"I vomited for four days. In that sense, they were marvelously effective, since I couldn’t get far enough away from a bucket to try conceiving anything."
"Well, we also murder each other a great deal."
"Everyone does. Human feet are inherently ugly. Your breasts are exemplary, however."
"Yes, I’ve heard that one before, too. Truly, lady, it’s all right."
"Finally, he thought. He felt as if he had waited years to be able to slide his hands over her rounded hips and down between her thighs, to finally touch her in all the ways he’d imagined doing."
"I don’t blame any man for not enjoying bedsports, but why marry and condemn his wife to the same?"
"You’ll have to tell me if there’s something I’m supposed to be doing."
"The great god, I fear, has no use for a man who cannot please a woman. Or a man, as he prefers."
"You are beautiful, and if you deny it, you are insulting my good taste and I will be terribly offended."
"It hardly matters what you want. You clearly can’t manage your own life."
"I’m afraid we’ll have to kill them both. Sorry."
"They described your wagon! They said you were a priest and a woman and a gnole—and a tame devil!"
"It’s not like they stay fluffy past the second day! You have to eat them up, or they get hard as rocks. Well, you know."
"A man who took you away from your troubles. A man who said you were beautiful. Of course you were a fool."
"‘Then’ nothing. Then you were as randy as a buck goat."
"You were a fool and you wanted to believe the best of the man who saved you."
"I did not trust your order to keep your end of the bargain. I required insurance."
"I don’t think they’re going to admit to servants of the Mother if they killed their priests, do you?"
"It’s only pain, Mistress Halla," he said. "The Dreaming God kept me from worse."
"I’ll ask again, woman, and you’d best answer! Where is your spirit?"
"Oh, that’s disgusting," whispered Halla to Zale. "I am disgusted."
"I don’t know why I’m nervous. It’s not like the times I lost my virginity."
"I’m afraid I’m taking it very personally, though."
"You are a dead man in live steel. You cannot even promise to grow old with her."
"You were kind and you were in a very bad situation and you wanted to believe the best of the man who saved you."
"A good marriage is one where both parties feel that they got the better deal."
"I don’t just gut myself for any wielder, you know."
"You’re not a killer. Well, obviously not yet."
"I’d rather not torture you. I’m not really a person who does that."
"I don’t want to hurt anyone. That’s why it would be best if you held very still, I think?"
"You’re alive. I thought I’d never see you again. I was so afraid I’d lost you."