It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.

“I am the blood of the dragon, she thought. If they are monsters, so am I.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives o…”

“It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them f…”

“Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to …”