If we surrender we’ll get our throats cut anyway. Let’s go out in a blaze of glory.
If one believes in God, but has learned not to pray, one offers only, in silence, one’s apologies, and then asks the spirit to do what it can.
I would have forgone even the body for the sake of the mind. And I would have claimed neither body nor mind, had I discovered a soul.
I wish,’ said Lymond, ‘it would try a major key sometimes.’‘Wind,’ Chancellor said, ‘is a melancholy creature.
I wish to make my fortune with you.’ ‘Well, you can forget about that, for a start,’ said Francis Crawford. ‘And if your place in Paradise has been written, then for God’s sake hang on to it. Because...
I will give you to Catherine. I will not give you to a hole in the ground.
I prize freedom of the mind above freedom of the body.
I made one mistake. Who doesn’t? But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. Of course it left me deformed and unserviceable, def...
I know. Aha, Oho, and every other bloody ejaculation. Let’s take it as read. You’re delirious at the idea of manhandling me and can’t wait to start. I in turn may say I find your arrival offensive and...
I know,’ said Danny Hislop. ‘I want to see them being fond of one another. I want to see everybody brazening it out. And then I want to see what your petit François does to you when the party’s over.
I hope never to have to do that to you again. I hope one day you will forgive me. Try to remember, just at this moment, that my trade calls for acting. Try to remember, Richard, as I have told you, th...
I hear you held a feast for our blood-drinking Besermani neighbours, which they attended in two parts, polled head on one side of the field and crossed legs on the other.’‘Rumour exaggerates,’ said Ly...
I give you a friendly warning. You think M. de Sevigny is drunk. He is not.’‘You might not think so,’ said Lymond amiably. ‘But in ten minutes or so, I am going to slip under the table and lie there.
I don’t bed with children.’‘Rumour says,’ said Catherine d’Albon, ‘that you did. Or are the Knights of St John all mistaken?’‘You know too much,’ said Francis Crawford slowly. ‘Shall I amend it? I don...
I do not know whether this man is a traitor or not, but he is an individualist, and in war the two are the same.
I dislike untidy wars, as I dislike untidy peacemaking.
I can live alone, but it is better to have someone else to concern oneself with; to help and be helped by. There is nothing so strong as a family.
I am glad then,’ said Catherine, ‘that there was nothing between us, rather than mediocrity.’And from the homes … of Unicornes …‘There was kindness,’ he said. ‘And that was a great deal.
I am Hermes, Conductor of Souls. Come if you wish. Come if you dare. All things arise from Space and into Space they return: Space is the beginning and the final end. There isn’t much of it here: watc...
Hullo. A strange game, isn’t it? I don’t enjoy it much either. But we have to finish it. Then you choose what we play next.’ And a smile broke over Khaireddin’s face: a genuine smile; the first one, t...