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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1h
It gave her goosebumps, and then, when the bird clearly knew its own name—and then, when Damian murmured to the falcon in a mysterious other language—which sounded entirely unlike Calandran—and then launched the gyrfalcon into the air, and it went looking— She had no words. None.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 11h
“It was out of the Lays,” Aya said again. “It should be in the Lays, Buru Tovo. It was a market like any other market, nothing of note except for the velioi guests ... and yet it was then, there, here, now, that the gods asked a question.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Buru Tovo wore feathers in his hair, which was a strange and rather old-fashioned custom Kip thought looked very fine.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He no longer believed one could legislate out of existence greed, or stupidity, or sheer perversity of will. It reassured him that neither could one legislate out of existence love, or hope, or the desire for beauty
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“He would have done well in the age of heroes, I expect, where he could wield his sword to find glory.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“You clasped shoulders, embraced, hugged, kissed, touched foreheads, bowed over your hands—I have not—Kip, I haven’t touched anyone! I don’t know how.” “Here, my lord,” he said, getting up and opening his arms slightly. “I will show you.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Lady,” she said, “my son is hearing his friend calling his name.” The Lady’s face went solemn, though the merriment did not leave her eyes and the blossoms did not fall. “Ah, my dear Champion is coming into his power at last.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Somehow,” she said, “I wasn’t expecting to be related to a crow.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To Major Jakory Greenwing, in memory of the wife beloved to both of us and to the honour of the son whom we both love dearly: fifty thousand bees, to be used as Jemis Greenwing directs for the restoration of his good name and the subsequent exhumation and re-internment of his remains.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Promise you won’t go away again?” Her voice was terribly anxious. Why would she worry that I would go away? And then I realized that to her life must seem a series of people going away, and not coming back.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“I think one day you will see the heart of the holy desert, for the Twelve have need, on occasion, of one who will stand against evil at the cost of her own heart’s desire.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Da disowned me. That broke the protections.” “But Grandmère put them on our family.” “What do you think disowning means? It’s not just a legal term.” “Magic answers to such things?” “Magic is such things. High emotion and strong words and fierce intention: what else do you think shapes it?”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Prince Rufus duly showed up. Kip hated him instantly. Why exactly Prince Rufus was so insistent on seeing him he didn’t quite understand, for the man clearly disliked him almost equally.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Perhaps he’d looked at Hope a few times, wondering what kind of duchess she might make ... but it would not be fair to spring that upon anyone, and he had not thought, in those last few harried days, to ask her if he might write. He could only pray to the Lady that their paths might cross again.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“You’re angry,” Sardeet observed. “You’re all knotted in yourself.” “I’m trying, Sardeeet,” Pali whispered. “I’m really struggling with ... everything.” “Everything?” The darkness surely hid her blush. “Fitzroy,” she admitted, even more quietly.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Imagine this. That this was his life, that after all he the silent one was teaching someone else to speak, that she the foreigner was teaching him to see the familiar things of his life, and the both of them together had found that strange stranger who brought magic in his wake ...
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We came at last to a single brightly burning light. I realized I’d been leading us there unconsciously but to excellent purpose. Where else could I expect refuge in the middle of the night? Not my uncle’s, that was certain, and Ragnor Bella itself was another six miles on. “My friend lives here.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“When is a trail not to be tracked?” I looked up at the Hunter. “When one is not the hunter.” He smiled without moving his face again. “It is a hard lesson for some.” To accept help. To await rescue. To allow another to fight on one’s behalf. None of those were things I was good at.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Terec felt a pang, and another face came into his mind, lean and elegant, with a jawline that he had loved to trace with his fingers. Conju, came the name, whispering in his mind, as if even the Wild could not dissolve that anchor in his heart.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hal decided to send the letter of acceptance and a promissory note for the first term’s tuition before he told anyone, and then after he did so, still didn’t tell anyone.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I chose the latter course, and as a result have had the great pleasure and even greater good fortune of witnessing the development and coming to maturity of perhaps the finest statesman in recorded history.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Obligations, now those Tovo understood. But this was not an obligation on him: this was a gift Kip’s emperor was giving Kip, in a way that Kip could not refuse.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I had finished the cardigan for Ballory and had enough yarn and time left over to make a matching scarf for Mr. Dart.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“It has just occurred to me,” Jullanar said, her voice suddenly brightening, “that we are on an adventure and we—we need merely accept the invitation held out to us.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Portia, how did you get here?” “By spaceship. Yourself?”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I had decided to see how long Mr. Dart could take an insistent lack of questioning before he cracked. We were naturally waylaid by highwaymen long before.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I’m a career bureaucrat, my lord, not a—” “You,” said his Radiancy with precision, “are not dull. Stop acting like it.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The Mother of the Mountains said all she could see was darkness ahead of me.” Ludvic raised his eyebrows at him, almost just as his Radiancy did. “All?” Cliopher closed his eyes. “Darkness, and monsters, and a small, ordinary, common white shell.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I eyed a collection of daggers that went up between two very ancient and lovely tapestries depicting incidents in the tale of the Knight and the Unicorn. That ... was a strange coincidence, if coincidence it was.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wanted to assure her that things weren’t always like this around us, except that I truly couldn’t in any good conscience—
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
She knew that it was hard to have a real adventure if she was squeamish about hunting for food, but then again, this was likely all the adventure she would ever had.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All my childhood memories seemed to involve him laughing, especially those from that wonderful long summer when I was nine and he was between wars, and against my mother’s token protests kept me out of the kingschool so we could spend as much time as possible together.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It was an indication of Cliopher Mdang’s status in the eyes of his lord that he was given the use of a sky ship for personal business.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Lady’s Eve: shortest day of the year, when the Dark pressed close. We would start a dozen days of celebrations and church services tomorrow to do our part fighting back against the forces of death and destruction. Usually this was entirely metaphorical. Usually.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Then, his pen suddenly scritching freely across the book, spattering ink in his excitement, he wrote: by the revolutionary poet Fitzroy the Adventurer.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As for Sardeet ... Perhaps what she was looking for was not to be found in a husband, but then again perhaps it was; for Arzu had found happiness and contentment and adventure enough with hers.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I held the burning diamonds in my cupped hands until my hands caught fire, and then I endured the pain as whatever it was I had given up burned itself back into me.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I’m not providing comparative measurements,” Cliopher said desperately. “You can get your own banana scale.” “I beg your pardon?” Toucan said. “I am fascinated by what could possibly have led to that response.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Come with us.” “Whither?” “A new place,” said the green one. “A farther country,” said the dour one. “Behind the arras of the world,” said the third he could not see.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It was raining: she’d crossed the city hoping not so much for a warm welcome, but at least warmth. She’d found, over the past year or so of travelling, that the warmth accorded to an unaccompanied woman traveller varied quite considerably.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I thought that was what you wanted,” Fitzroy said. “And what I ... I wanted it, too. I wanted to ... Kip, I thought ... I’ve misunderstood something. What does it mean? You’re so quiet about this ... it’s so important to you. I want to know. Please.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
‘They mean the common and ordinary good of duty honourably fulfilled, of love occasionally accompanied by quarrels, of friendships that will not fail, of a home filled with laughter and music and family.’
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No one had known that their great rivalry was a game they played with each other, a courtship of daring and skill, challenging one in the other’s voice, a wooing by music and performance and nerve.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He cleared his throat. “If you wish to be his Radiancy—” “No. I—I can’t, Kip. Not yet.” 'Not ever' was obvious in the sudden distress in his eyes.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“It occurs to me that you are missing your bear-baiter.” “That’s behind the Guildmarket Hall. You didn’t want—” “No, no, I mean your Mr. Dart.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tamsin was coming to the conclusion that it was possible that he had not hitherto been enjoying the healthiest of all lifestyles.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“It seems to mean that you’ve decided not to deny your magic any longer.” “You are not the only one to have had a life-altering experience last night,” Mr. Dart said quietly.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
But in that superlative version of his customary finery, he realized that what he looked like was the tanà, the Tender of the Fire, the advisor to chiefs and paramount chiefs—and emperors.
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Come, my friends, we shall announce an amnesty on Fitzroy Angursell’s music tonight, and let us make merry in honour of the great statesman with the music of the great outlaw. There is something delicious about the whole idea.”
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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why there was a magical talking fox with two tails running around south Fiellan having perplexing conversations with people was a question Hope very much wanted to know the answer to, but unlike Jemis didn’t see the point in asking directly.
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