Once a barbarian princess, always a barbarian princess.

You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it to grow and be strong.

All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.

Cordelia looked at Edric. "Which way will lead to our respite, think you?" "I don't know, my lady," he admitted.There was a pause."This way," Tania decided, heading off to the left and pulling him with her."Why?""It's downhill.

I wish we had rocket launchers.

Through the haze, bulbous shapes drifted to and fro about the town. Silka guessed they were the dirigibles of which her father had sometimes spoken--great elongated bags of gas ribbed and hung with gondolas, powered by grinding engines, gouting steam, and sparks as they cruised like airborne pigs, filled with passengers and cargoes.