I don’t know how you’ve managed a tan,” Daydra said, “but you’ll have to keep it up, and talk like a pirate. If you want to work for Momma K, you’re going to be the Sethi pirate girl. You have a husband or a lover?” Kaldrosa hesitated. “Husband,” she admitted. “The last beating nearly killed him.” “If you do this, you’ll never get him back. A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but he’ll never forgive one who goes whoring for him.” “It’s worth it,” Kaldrosa said. “To save his life, it’s worth it.
If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.
You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.
The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.
Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.