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Lest anyone should suppose that I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket but a lusty peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I may say that I am House-born and reared in the Night Court proper, for all the good it did me.

~ Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

(with a runner up ... almost meant to tempt people to getting around to that second trilogy XD)

What does it mean to be good?

~ Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey


Cheating a bit since Kushiel's Scion is probably my least favourite of the books on a whole (though least favourite of my favourite series is still pretty high up there). However Imriel is my favourite character and I really do see the whole series as two parts that make a whole. So here are the first lines of both parts.