Welcome with hautbois, clarions and trumpets, noble lady. Welcome to the company of those who can be hurt.
We may lack some polish,’ he said. ‘But distrust the society which displays overmuch dangerous charm.
We are here. We will work together for what purpose seems to us right. We will work with calm, and with tolerance and, please God, with saving laughter.‘We know something of men. We know of evil, and...
We all die,’ said Nostradamus. ‘The man you love. The man who loves you. The man you married. But because of you there will be something, I promise you, by which men will know Francis Crawford has bee...
War had given Francis his respite, and success had brought him his final reward: the freedom he wished from his marriage. The licence, if he desired it, to go back to Russia. The knowledge, one suppos...
Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
Unwanted, unasked, unwelcome as ever, here I am.’‘Again,’ said Lymond.
Unlike Kate, this girl had broken from her setting. All that Kate was, she now had. And standing on Kate’s shoulders, something more, still growing; blossoming and yet to fruit.All that he was not.
Truth’s nothing but falsehood with the edges sharpened up, and ill-tempered at that: no repair, no retraction, no possible going back once it’s out.
To see what I would say,’ Lymond said and smiling, destroyed all his own controls as they looked at him. ‘She had no intention of going. But if you hadn’t come in, who knows what she would have learne...
To Lymond, she said, ‘I didn’t ask. I don’t care what you are going to say. I don’t care. I don’t care. These things have got to be said. Everyone is frightened to speak to you.’‘But I allow no one—no...
They play at gods,' said Piedar Dooly, and spat. 'French and English alike. Gods out of hell would you say, harrowing green land for their tennis courts and dressing lapdogs in treasure that would kee...
They are afraid of him?’ D’Harcourt raised his comedian’s eyebrows.Danny Hislop’s bright teeth flashed in his hairless, unremarkable face. ‘If they were afraid, they’d tear him to pieces like schoolgi...
There was a silence. Then: ‘What you are saying,’ said Philippa slowly, ‘is that the child Khaireddin would be better unfound?’ The Dame de Doubtance said nothing. ‘Or are you saying,’ pursued Philipp...
There was a silence. 'You didn't as,' said Jerott at length. 'But 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.
There is little you cannot already guess. You know now what you want. You are about to learn how to give. But the hardest lesson of all is accepting. Am I not right?
There is a man in him that could support it,’ Archie said. ‘True enough. But it is maybe a man the world could do without.
There have been so many misunderstandings in the past. What you did, often, was done for good reason. I know I am simple. I know you are devious. But, oh God, if there is any good reason for what you...
There are times,’ said Philippa shortly, ‘when I feel like the entire Russian army.’‘There are times, said Lymond equally shortly, ‘when I wish that you were. It would solve the whole Tartar problem a...
There are those that want to take time and men to hunt down Lymond and his band of murderers; and those that demand that Culter should lead them as proof of his loyalty. But if Richard Crawford of Cul...