“The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.”

“Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.”

“My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.”

“If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?”

“She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?""In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.”

“For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you’re a sorry state of affairs.”

“...one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself was an act.”