Palace Of Stone Quotes
"The rock-lined road is the way to work, The rock-lined road takes the work away, The rock-lined road is the way to take, If you take that road away you’ll always take that way back home, Take you there and take you home, there’s nothing but the rocky road."
"Strange, lately, how many things made her feel two opposite ways twisted together."
"Her mountain was big. The world was bigger."
"If she talked, she did not have to think. Thinking only made her stomach fall faster."
"Expect us for lunch, Miri, so long as the wagons have not come."
"This letter is from Katar, Mount Eskel’s delegate to the royal court in Asland."
"A bee’s sting entered whose heart? It’s just a poem. Never mind."
"A few blinks and you’ll be back. A year’s a small thing."
"No small thing, a bee’s sting, when it enters the heart."
"Your Royal Majesty, the people of Mount Eskel, in honor of your noble reign, offer our harvest gift."
"I’m sure we’re safe in here. The guards will take care of everything."
"I am anxious for you to come. There are things happening in Asland."
"I have made friends with a lowlander, and he has a name: Timon."
"I want to live in a nation of possibilities, not a kingdom where the noble-born get richer and the poor get poorer."
"We will march this kingdom down, we will break the golden crown."
"Melted salt, drenched air, Rocking ground, fish lair."
"No small thing, a bee’s sting, When it enters the heart, Not so benign, the growing vine, When it tears stone apart."
"‘Tis I, my sweet, your rough-and-ready man, Well hid by night to beg your fine white hand, Though king of bandits, draped in chains of gold, I’m poor in love and suffer grief untold."
"A quint, my lord, a quint for some grain, A quint for the rent, a roof from the rain, A sip of hot soup to fill empty space, An old wool scarf to warm my face."
"Open sky, cat’s-eye, Honey drop, treetop, Flag stripe, plum ripe, Pipe smoke, ancient oak, Pine knot, moon shot, Rose bed, raven’s head."
"I never really believed the lowlanders would allow a crown to sit on a mountain girl’s head."
"I am not the only one changed by Asland."
"I feel more like that blue crocus than a miri flower."
"I want to be one of those people. The standing ones."
"I am so full of hope and ideas I might float right off my bed."
"Everything was simpler when the world was smaller."
"I cannot stop the tribute. I cannot do anything. Except maybe be Britta’s friend."
"Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream?"
"I always know exactly what Timon is feeling and thinking. He never leaves me guessing."
"I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out."
"I am so sorry about the two gold coins in mother’s shawl."
"It’s our job as scholars to keep speaking out and describing the world as it is until the people can truly see it."
"If I looked like you, I wouldn’t have to try."
"Every day I finish up my chores and stay awake as long as I can to practice carving, and then I fall into my cot, too tired to take off my shoes. But even then, all I want to do, more than sleep even, is talk to you."
"Because she had looked into Timon’s eyes and felt wonderful in his arms. Because it was the bridal ball, and what if the old wives’ tale was true after all?"
"The people woke and knew, yes, knew, that bandits had come."
"Mount Eskel feels the boots of outsiders, Mount Eskel won’t bear their weight."
"We learn and talk and think so that when it comes time to make a choice, we have hope of a good one."
"Sweet girls are sighing, young boys are pining, Eskel is skying."
"Britta does not care about being a princess. She loves Steffan, not the prince heir, and is perhaps the only one in the world who sees him truly."
"A square is a lot harder than it looks. Why, a square is perhaps the most difficult shape in all the world."
"We claim Britta as our own. She no longer belongs to Lonway or her dishonorable father."
"A kingdom at war with itself will not long stand. Let us wash the blood from our hands and start anew."
"But mistake not this pardon for unlimited lenience. Any new crimes of treason will be punished swiftly and justly. The so-called revolution ends now, or the executioner’s ax will fall."
"Don’t worry, I won’t tattle if you’re good," Miri said, rising to go.
The king pardoned all of you," said Miri, "and so I’ll try to as well.
"I understand nobles who aren’t courtiers are often scorned by other nobles in Asland."
"Then Steffan would have chosen me!" Miri shouted back.
"Nothing had changed for the shoeless of Danland, and tributes would soon strike Mount Eskel."
"An idea is like a fire under ice. You can try to put out the fire, but the melting has already begun."
"I’m not quite ready yet," Gerti said, plucking a lute string.
"I am of age, and you haven’t asked me to be your betrothed."
We could ask the king," said Peder. "He sort of owes you his life.
"It almost feels good, because it reminds me I have a family I love and that I will see you again."
"Home will always be Mount Eskel. And I will always be your Miri."