“Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.”

“Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.”

“Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?”

“... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.”

“When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.”

“I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.”

“God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.''I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife.'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him.”