Quotes from book

Bloodhound

“Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.”

“Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.”

“She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.”

“Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.”

“I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.”

“What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked.
"I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.”

“Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say."
— Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck”

“Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.”

“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.”