22 Quotes by Danielle Bennett

Don't worry,' my girl said, 'I'll teach you to outwit pity.

But I hated the Emperor of the Ke-Han with everything I had in me, for every man I'd lost and every friend who'd died, for every story I'd known was false but had allowed to harden my heart against the enemy anyway.

You can pretend it's a play,' I told him. 'Such small things do not anger the gods. Plays only anger the mortal men who watch them

Servants do not speak at all, so how can I ever hope to speak as one?

Keep your eyes down and don't speak unless you're spoken to were the only two rules a servant had to follow, and those just so happened also to be the basics of espionage.

So I put my shoulder against the door, which was too little for me anyway, said a hearty fuck your mother to the element of surprise, and flung myself out into the mirrored hallway where, as Temur had explained, at least six men would be waiting for me.

Fighting you's the only reward I want,' I said, 'for saving your life.

They've made him into a deity,' I told Alcibiades, my eyes wide with wonder.'No,' Alcibiades replied. 'They've made him into a god.

In the court of Madoka, people who preyed on and stole from the poor and helpless deserved to be buried from the neck down and left to die in the desert while the birds picked out their eyes.