"Captain Westfall was not excessively handsome, but she couldn't help finding the ruggedness of his face and the clarity of his golden-brown eyes rather appealing." chap. 2, p. 12

"She'd only been eight when Arobynn Hamel, her mentor and the King of Assassins, found her half-submerged on the banks of a frozen river and brought her to his keep on the border between Adarlan and Terrasen." chap. 5, p. 31

"She wanted to leap from her horse and run to them, or to simply scream that she wasn't a part of the prince's court, that she had no hand in bringing them here, chained and starved and beaten, that she had worked and bled with them, with their families and friends—she was not like these monsters that destroyed everything." chap. 7, p. 42

"It was easy enough to tell the nobility from her competitors. Old and wrinkled, each nobleman wore fine clothes...