"The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure ..."
- Robin Hobb
"Would you kick her ass already?" Dick said, shoving me back toward Missy. "Come on, Stretch, man up. You do better than this! Get mad."I nodded, rolling a dislocated shoulder back into place with a gr..."
- Molly Harper
"We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread."
"Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it."
"His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His crac..."
"I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with."
"You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much has ..."
"And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me."