Quotes from Sarah Kozloff

Dear Queen, of course you don't know me, but could you be the quiet, sore-footed woman who rode with the Raiders in Oromondo? I played the fife and you sang? I fell in love with you but was too much of a coward to admit it? By the way, I saw you die from the Magi's fireball so how did you get to Cascada and on the throne?

Ciell? is right," she said out loud to the dogs, startling them awake. They looked at her with their ears pricked up. "You are dogs—all right, lovely dogs, my wonderful dogs—but dogs just the same. In many ways it is easier to get along with you than to sort out messy relationships with people. But since I am condemned to be human, I must try harder.

I cannot wed a man who would have me be less than I am. Not Rotherrod, nor any man who needs me to be less so that he can be more.

I bring you nothing: no riches, no magic. But I don't need that; I don't want that. All I have to offer is my love, but that love has no limits and imposes none on you.

I lost you once. I could not survive losing you again," he said. "Don't go away.

Most things a person does," she said to the dark liquid of the goblet, "they do for several complicated reasons. I'm rarely certain that my motives are pure.

Families are always complicated, even when you're raised with your own kin. The fierceness of the love also creates hurts and rivalries, all mixed up.

Hey, sorry, am I late? I got a note that a man—not just anybody mind you but the hero of three continents—was going to be drawn and quartered here tonight, and I'm eager to watch the show.

Sister," said Marcot, "would you like me to murder him now or wait until later?

Don't think I'm not trying. I'm trying, every day.