You mean my reputation is ruined? No wealthy gentlemen suing for my favours?’‘No respectable wealthy gentlemen suing for your favours,’ he said.
You have a tongue, have you not, which breaks backs? I have madness in many forms, but that which springs from the passions of the heart is not in my nature. That is all. We are all fashioned differen...
You don’t understand,’ she said. In her lap, the loose hands had ground together: between the fair brows a single line showed, of anger and disgust and a kind of futile perplexity. 'You don’t understa...
You did not, I trust, persuade your eminent friend to forsake his bower in favour of these noisome marshes? That would indeed be a case of the punishment being born at the same time as the sin.
You did not expect human values from a machine. You did not grow angry with a machine, or be disappointed or feel betrayed by it. You treated it with detachment and curiosity, as you would any soul-de...
You choose to play God, and the Deity points out that the post is already adequately filled. During an outburst of besotted philanthropy he had redeemed Lymond, but Lymond quite simply was not prepare...
You are not coming.’‘But——’ said Christopher.‘You heard your father,’ said Killingworth. ‘You can’t hold enough liquor.’‘Can you?’ said Christopher, goaded.‘No,’ said George Killingworth, after a mome...
You are not being badgered; you are being invaded.
You Scotsmen: you wish to be like the elephant, hacked to pieces for refusing to bow. You should follow my rule: here am I, supple and amenable as a goatskin glove of Vendôme and pleasant to all, Duke...
Yes, gentlemen: said Philippa impatiently, and seizing a stout wooden heading axe, let it fall on the next person who passed.It was Lymond. He dropped to his knees, his hands covering the nape of his...
Why not? I thought we were speaking of death and dishonour? You would advance to your grave and I should join the ranks of your numerous dead: Diccon and Salablanca, Tosh and Christian Stewart; Oonagh...
Why not,’ said Gaultier viciously, ‘play chess?’It silenced Lymond. His head went back as if he had been struck, the indrawn air caught in his throat. He said nothing more.
Why did you decide to join me?Why … ? repeated Redhead, needing time to think.Word of three letters, said Lymond. Come along, for God’s sake: no need to let me have it all my own way. What was it? Rap...
Which reminds me -''The new ladies have arrived,' said Adam grimly. 'Guaranteed of clean stock, and inured to Russian practices. Osep has announced himself suited.''For the time being,' said Danny, op...
Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?
What will you not achieve next time? You should be relieved. A lifetime of desertion, and you are still her favourite son.
What was original sin? Was it more than an arbitrary pattern set in the loom, of talents and weaknesses, picked out from the warp of one’s forebears?
What is there but untruth and heartbreak wherever you go?
What had you expected? A viper, or a devil, or a ravening idiot; Milo with the ox on his shoulders, Angra-Mainyo prepared to do battle with Zoroaster, or the Golden Ass? Or didn’t you know the family...
What does anyone want out of life? What kind of freak do you suppose I am? I miss books and good verse and decent talk. I miss women, to speak to, not to rape; and children, and men creating things in...