Best 21 quotes of Kate Elliott on MyQuotes

A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens and yet specific to the pressure of hands and the parting of lips. It raised more intense feelings than I had expected, like being engulfed in a storm of lightning.

A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.

Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.

...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.

Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.

Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

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.

I am like you, Bloodheart,” he said, his voice hoarse; but his voice always was hoarse now, for he had survived worse injuries than these. The iron collar, and his chains, weighed heavily on his neck. “My heart rests not within me but with another, and she is far away from here. That is why you will never defeat me.

I shall bury the blade in your skull, just above your right eye." "That's what I love about you. Your precision.

Male or female, what did it matter, really, when the body yearned?

Never let it be said that I could not talk my way out of any trouble that I could not punch.

There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must.

The skin of frozen snow crunched satisfyingly beneath my boots as I smashed each step into the ground just as I planned to smash my foes.

War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.

We don't have to accept the things we might change.

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.

Words flooded like the storm's surge in a wild burst of anger that took me utterly by surprise.