Quotes About Loyalty

Why do you have to develop a sense of loyalty now? It is tiresome and unexpected.

Have you ever stopped to consider what changed Valraven from the friend you loved into the cold creature that could kill without thinking?

We gave up on each other, when we should have remained staunch.

If he were straining at the leash, eager to become the True King, then, paradoxically, he would not be the right candidate. We must woo him carefully.

We're infected, both of us. We are his followers, whatever our conscious minds try to tell us. Our only defense is that we should be aware of that.

His honest feeling was that he wanted to lean against Varian's legs, like a dog needing the comfort of its master's hand. Rather than perform a series of social manoeuvers, he simply obeyed the instinct and sat down. The fact that he felt relaxed doing this surprised him greatly.

When he sat upon his throne there, the empress's hand would be forever upon his shoulder, lightly but firmly.

Meggie had probably also noticed, or been informed, of a change in Delmar's behaviour. Now, he was entirely Tamara's creature. She had primed him with talk of Shemyaza and subdued his instinctive fears.

It is not your place to question. You are only a servant of the Light. You must do as we ask. If you refuse, we will act through you in any case, but you may well be lost.

I too have a headstrong sister," he said. "For all the problems she presents, I would not want her to be any other way.

As I said, he danced on both sides of the coin; master on intrigue and cunning and devoted lover to a damaged man.

You are his creature and you must lure him to me.

People fall out, and fall in; then they can't make up their minds and just claw each other. It was like that, but not like that. We had divided loyalties.

They call him the hand of fire, the eye of the emperor. It is said that as he slays in your father's name, so your father witnesses the event. Valraven pledged himself to the fire. Yes, I know what he is, Varencienne. A traitor to his land, his gods.

I am yours, my friend.

How could he curse her? It was impossible. What his master loved, he loved.

The Pelleth were too eager to have Daniel in their ranks, and although Meggie and Betsy cleverly disguised their fervour, Emma could sense it behind their words, boiling away like a kettle on the old black range.

I think trust is a priceless commodity.

Daniel had passed the point where he could tell himself to drop Owen Winter's friendship. He'd tried it in the past, but Owen only had to appear again and Daniel would be powerless.

You're important, Daniel, you're Shemyaza's vizier. They want you in their clutches, but they won't risk your death.

Be careful, Othman, I can have a pack of famished hounds down your back while you lie asleep at night. I can tell your little Winter friends a few things about you.

If you want the poetry and sham of romantic love, you are mistaken in me, but what you can have is loyalty and understanding. Speak to me. Tell me your heart.

Pharinet's love for him endured and she would fight like a dragon to protect all that was his, including his wife.

Your soul is old, Daniel, yet irrespressibly young. Stay by your master, for he needs you.