“A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.”

“Never,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.”

“Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.”

“There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.”

“My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against the trunk of the tree. "And," he said with another resounding thump, "although I'm very familiar with that part of the female body, I take offense at being labeled one.”

“I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”

“Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”