That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.
When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.
The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job.