“Then the queenmother said, "I am done with weeping." She whistled for the grey wolves that guarded her keep, and they loped at her heels as she rode around the Inward Sea and south to Ramas, and the way was… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“I awoke in the deepest night to find I had been divided from myself. There lay my body sleeping and dreaming, and I was… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“The world the gods made is too big for us, so we make ourselves a smaller one.” — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“He pushed up his visor and came over to me. He put his shield arm around me and pulled me close. This new skin… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“Then the queenmother said, "I am done with weeping." She whistled for the grey wolves that guarded her keep, and they loped at her… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the wine, did… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“I leaned toward him and whispered, "I'm drowning. Save me." But when I tried to grasp his shoulder my hand passed through him. "I'm… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“If he was wood, he was a flail, and I was grain on the threshing floor. I was a thousand grains, my thoughts blown… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“But that was all bravado. Already - how had it come about so quickly - desire had begotten need. A few whispered words (perhaps… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“But I found signs of their trespass: a burned patch planted with a fistful of grain, a tree felled or stripped of fruit, a… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to forbid the worship of a god, and another to command that it be forgotten. One day I found the oldest… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“You still haven't said where you come from. Where is your home?" I said, "I am a sheath, so home is wherenever my shade,… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“An edge of a sword is made as much from the steel taken away as the steel that is left” — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
