Danielle Bennett

“You could approach someone worlds apart from you by offering them, like a handshake, a simple truth from their own lives.”

— Danielle Bennett

“I don't know," I said. "Whether or not he can write his own name seems to have very little impact on his…

— Danielle Bennett

“You are a woman; this is your body. You are beholden to no one, Ke-Han or Volstovic.”

— Danielle Bennett

“They've made him into a deity,' I told Alcibiades, my eyes wide with wonder. 'No,' Alcibiades replied. 'They've made him into a…

— Danielle Bennett

“You couldn't wake someone when his own dreams turned out better than reality.”

— Danielle Bennett

“This ain't beauty,' Rook said, and spat savagely- grossly- downwind. "Just some nasty shadows masquerading.”

— Danielle Bennett

“To have a purpose in life was a wealth that could never be measured.”

— Danielle Bennett

“Servants do not speak at all, so how can I ever hope to speak as one?”

— Danielle Bennett

“In the court of Madoka, people who preyed on and stole from the poor and helpless deserved to be buried from the…

— Danielle Bennett

“Funny what one's willing to do for family, isn't it?' Fan said, pulse pounding like a jackrabbit's. 'I take no pleasure in…

— Danielle Bennett

“So I put my shoulder against the door, which was too little for me anyway, said a hearty fuck your mother to…

— Danielle Bennett

“You can tell Rook his statue's become something like the patron saint for Our Lady, and you can see whores there night…

— Danielle Bennett

“You're nothing more than a common bully,' he whispered, voice trembling. I'd shaken him for good now, and it was deeper than…

— Danielle Bennett

“Fighting you's the only reward I want,' I said, 'for saving your life.”

— Danielle Bennett

“Don't worry,' my girl said, 'I'll teach you to outwit pity.”

— Danielle Bennett

“He was goin' on four and he used to eat fireflies. I don't know. I think he thought they'd make him glow.”

— Danielle Bennett

“Contentment is quite a different thing from pleasure.”

— Danielle Bennett

“Besides, rats survived so well because they were rats. They knew when to keep quiet and they knew when to squeal.”

— Danielle Bennett

“You can pretend it's a play,' I told him. 'Such small things do not anger the gods. Plays only anger the mortal…

— Danielle Bennett

“Keep your eyes down and don't speak unless you're spoken to were the only two rules a servant had to follow, and…

— Danielle Bennett

“But I hated the Emperor of the Ke-Han with everything I had in me, for every man I'd lost and every friend…

— Danielle Bennett

“He tried to kill me," I said, not because I thought I could trust Caius, but more because I didn't have anyone…

— Danielle Bennett

“You want this thing, this dragonsoul, for sentimental purposes. Because you can't let go of the glory days, or you long for…

— Danielle Bennett