Swordspoint: A Novel Quotes

Ellen Kushner
This Study Guide consists of approximately 35 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Swordspoint.

Swordspoint: A Novel Quotes

Ellen Kushner
This Study Guide consists of approximately 35 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Swordspoint.
This section contains 284 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Swordspoint: A Novel Study Guide

Let the fairy-tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood new-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as the single spot of claret on the lace cuff. (Chapter 1, p. 1)

It was natural for him to want to hurt the man who had been the instrument of his first adult grief; natural, but not right. (Chapter 24. p. 223)

Alec's ideas of "entertaining" were violent. (Chapter 3, p. 20)

Ginnie didn't believe in fortune-telling per se, but she understood the techniques involved: a judicious blend of gossip and personal assessment. (Chapter 22, p. 207)

The romantic ideal, of course, is to die fighting, young and still at one's peak. (Chapter 6, p. 45)

All that the world had counted beautiful could be trained, turned on the lathe of practice to become a dangerous weapon. (Chapter 6, p. 49)

"I wonder if you men have any idea of how...

(read more)

This section contains 284 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Swordspoint: A Novel Study Guide
Copyrights
BookRags
Swordspoint: A Novel from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.