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Kate Elliott _ Cold Magic
How can it be men would put up with such an arrangement?''Why do some people demand it of women but not of men? It is just another way of doing things. As my father would have said, folk will have their customs according to their nature and their surroundings.
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Kate Elliott _ Cold Magic
That reminds me of a song," said Emilia. The women laughed; the men groaned. But the fire was blazing and the night was long, and folk will want entertainment after the tedium of a day's work. Emilia's song detailed the amorous adventures of a water horse who fell in love-if love was the right word-with a series of young women who passed beside the lake in which the creature dwelled and from which he emerged in the form of a good-looking young man of exactly the right sort to catch a young woman's fancy. She had a clear voice and a pleasing timbre, and every local knew the chorus, whose euphemisms about mounting and galloping embarrassed me. We did not sing these sorts of songs in the Barahal house. Rory caught right on and sang the chorus as if born to it. In the laughter and pounding of tables that followed, I said, to no one in particular, "I thought kelpies drowned and then devoured their victims!" The words, innocently spoken, only caused the gathered folk to laugh even
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Kate Elliott _ Cold Fire
To withhold trust until there is no doubt is not trust.
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Kate Elliott _ Cold Magic
We are none of us one thing alone and unchanging. We are not static, or at rest. Just as a city or a prince's court or a lineage is many people in one, so is a person many people within one, always unfinished and always like a river's current flowing onward ever changing toward the ocean that is greater than all things combined.
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Kate Elliott _ Buried Heart
There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must.
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Kate Elliott _ Buried Heart
Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.
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Kate Elliott _ The Gathering Storm
Like fire, the passage of time devoured all things, even a man's life, until it was utterly consumed.
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Kate Elliott _ Cold Fire
Where do I start? Revolutions to plot. Enemies to crush. Handsome men to rescue.
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Kate Elliott _ Cold Fire
She spoke in a caustic tone that would surely have burned out anyone else's tongue had they attempted it.
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Kate Elliott _ Cold Fire
His brow furrowed in a way that suggested he was calculating my likely ability to be that naive.
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Kate Elliott _ Cold Fire
Why do you ask me questions to which you already know the answer?"She tapped me on the arm with her painted fan. "To annoy you, dearest.
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Kate Elliott _ Cold Magic
That was why I kept stealing books out of the parlor and returning them. For the only books I ever took were my father's journals. Didn't I have some right to them, being that they, and I, were all that remained of him?
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