“Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.”

“Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.”

“Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?”

“You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.”

“Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense--Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry”

“Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?”

“Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?" Alanna didn't look up. "No." It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time. ”