Quotes from work

Hart's Hope

“Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.”

“A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.”

“A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.”

“He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter.”

“She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.”

“You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.”

“They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.”

“When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.”

“Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.”

“Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.”