I am not sure I trust you."
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.
I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.
Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head."
"Is that when he cried?"
"He ducked," Attolia said dryly.
Grown more confident of the queen's humor, Relius said, "I had not pictured you for a fishwife."
"Lo, the transforming power of love.
I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change.
I'll be your minister-"
"Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind."
"I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly.
"Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?"
"That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it."
"My earrings?"
"What earrings?
He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
When I am actually willing to marry you, I will wear your earrings. Don't wait for it, Thief.
Oh, Lady," said the woodcutter, "my hurt is overwhelming because it is someone else's pain that makes me cry.
These people make my family look easy to get along with.
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
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