“What's dead may never die.”
“Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.”
“However bright a torch might burn it could never match the rising sun.”
“The tree had been dead a long time, but itseemed to live again in the fire”
“For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.”
“A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.”