Go away and bleed to death,’ said his onetime saviour sharply. ‘On behalf of the female sex I feel I may cheer every lesion.
For this, you are right, I need to be either entirely sober or very drunk indeed.
Every other woman since Eve has asked to be loved more than honour. But not you.
Do you think I envy him? At least I was reared without tenderness and without expectation of it. During all that time, you were breeding a hothouse love based on deception.
Do you regret it?’ said Sybilla. ‘I would have kept it for you if I could. I did not know, you see, what you were to be.
Dear God,’ Richard said, and stood up. ‘Can you not dispense with a bawd between Thursday and Monday?
Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius, or why worry about tomorrow, when your funeral is today. Goodbye.
And that was when she realized that laughter, which they had lost, had come back to them, and they were whole again.
A versatile commodity, death; except for those suffering it.
A reckoning formally appointed and now paid to the limit. A tribute to Janus, God of Gates, to prevent that other, deferred payment to Charon.
A queen does not need to be crowned,’ said Güzel, ‘in order to rule.
When two friends discuss money, the third friend should invariably be asleep.
My beloved is dead.
Your blasted Nanny should have taught you what mine did,’ said Lymond. ‘The things you enjoy most aren’t good for you.
You will have power and wealth, but what are these to a scholar? You will end your life an oasis in a desert of ignorance.
You sit on trouble, don’t you, until it blows up in your face?
Without thinking at all deeply about anything, he was chiefly aware of the need to be back in a company of men, fighting something.
Whatever fascination Lymond held for her mother, it had no power at five in the morning.
What can be done for these headaches?’[...] ‘Short of execution,’ Lymond said, ‘I think the problem is insoluble.
What I desire, thou dost not possess for thyself. How canst thou render it then to another?