Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?
Curiosity is a terrible inducement.
I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.
The grander the temple, the lousier its hangers-on.
Premature action alerts the opposition.
Falco readers are, I must say, the most strikingly nice group of people.
Afterwards, sometimes she dared to remember being in his arms. How, after only clumsy couplings with others, she and this man had straightaway come together as a perfect fit. How they moved together,...
Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.
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It is possible to take against someone, then continue to loathe them out of pure prejudice.
I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps.
You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him.
Spies have no sense of timing.
Aprender una lengua extraña: asimilas nociones de gramática, vocabulario básico y un acento espantoso que apenas sirve para que te entiendan. Te esfuerzas durante años y de repente, sin saber por qué,...
They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew's money but their souls.
Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don’t want to lose.
By this evening, the mad murderer would have a golden alabastron containing a deadly potion made by Cappadocian dwarfs from a recipe handed down through thirty generations, to which there was no antid...
Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.
I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someo...
Free time, time to do whatever you liked, or to do absolutely nothing, alone or in company you valued: of all the luxuries in the Empire, perhaps this was the greatest.