And Hislop?’ said Lymond softly. ‘Don’t sound so aggrieved. There are no rewards, celestial or mundane, for the best display of pure, bloody inquisitiveness.’Which drove Ludovic d’Harcourt to a deduct...
An unheroic and unpublicized scene.
Although I despise the hanging jaw of hunger, I do not intend that the needy should look to me for their banquet.
Absence is absence, whatever causes it. It is no more or less an affront to you. I did say, as I remember, that I would try to do what you wished me to do. And that you must forgive me if I failed.
A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
A Scott, having got his bride pregnant, was apt to file her as completed business for eight months at a time.
This, I believe, is when the holy relics at St Denis are usually taken down and exposed, bu all right-minded people, against fiends, bogles and your friend Mr Crawford.
Que je vive, mon cueur ne changera … Mon chois est fait, aultre ne se fera …
Eside him, on a low table stood a chess set she remembered. The heavy pieces of rock crystal and silver stood, darkly glimmering below the light of the window, and the fire, seeking them, had placed w...
Any country which has suffered a reverse of fortune instantly turns on its nonconformists.
You’ve got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It’s good for the soul.
You’ve changed the metre,’ said Philippa.‘I reserve the right,’ said Lymond, ‘to change the metre. Don’t interrupt.
You’re going to declare a rest period?’ asked Jerott. Leisure, with Gabriel there, seemed too good to be true. ‘Rumour being what it is, I imagine it will have declared itself by now,’ Lymond said. ‘Y...
Your state has been seen, and will be reported on. Only it is necessary that you do not yawn. Or, of course, speak. Discretion in all things in all things is needed. She was reminding them, and she ho...
You summon and you throw away. You treat love like a bird for the table … Like a pawn, now in frankincense, now discarded and thrown in the dirt. You don’t know what love is, either of you. And God he...
You sit on trouble, don’t you, until it blows up in your face?
You rode sixty miles through the night for a brother who doesn’t exist. I haven’t been here for four years. I have been growing and changing, somewhere else, with different people, speaking a differen...
You promise food and horses and nonresistance and when they invade, you do or don’t lick their boots according to the thickness of your walls and the kind of conscience you have.
You need bed and a hot drink and a little less fluent self-pity.
You have only to lift your hand,' Thorkel Fostri said. And after a moment, 'What else were you born for?''Why not happiness, like other men? Thorfinn said.'You have that,' said his foster-father. 'But...