The Returning Quotes

Pin was bored with Lords and war. She took a hank of Cam's long hair in each hand. "Giddap!" She snapped the hair-reins. (1.91)

It was strange, he thought later, how something he was so sure about could turn around and become another thing altogether. (4.61)

Well, they've their own ways, those Uplanders. (1.24)

Cam kicked at the ground with the toe of his boot. "I've done nothing. Nothing. Since I did come home." "You fought; you've done enough." "Enough for who? For what? To rot the rest of my days?" (1....

There were two things Graceful did not know about her life: how many children she would have, and when she would die. If she thought about not knowing these two huge things, her stomach went tight....

"Yet they did not. That is what I cannot figure," he said, his left hand warm on her ankle. "Healed me, cared for me, and I their enemy and they mine. But why? Why?" (1.90-91)

"You listen to your father." Stepmother turned and smiled at her. "When is he ever wrong?" (2.112)

The arrow stuck straight up from Jinn's chest; the gray feathers of the fletching danced just a little with the movement of the air. (3.9)