He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me.While I think you'll marry Sophos.I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.
Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.
It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.
Lilies, I rule, heads, you do, he [the King] said, and threw the coin into the air.Lilies, you rule, heads, you throw again, said Attolia.The coin dropped. Eugenides looked at it and then showed it to...
I want you to steal something.I smiled. Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you.If I were you, said the magus, I'd stop bragging about that. His voice grated.My smile grew. The gold ring wit...
Costis flinched and looked away from this compensation to the king's handicap, only to find himself looking into the king's face instead. Eugenides matched Costis look for look, his expression grave,...
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to lo...
Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head.Is that when he cried?He ducked, Attolia said dryly.Grown mo...
I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.
When I am actually willing to marry you, I will wear your earrings. Don't wait for it, Thief.
A successful thief doesn't depend on things being unlikely to happen, I said.
If there is anything else you desire, Your— I desire—the king interrupted in a level voice—never again to see your living face.
Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I’d failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.
It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.
I am a master of foolhardy plans.
Ah, said the magus, understanding at once. I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again.Surely that's unlikely, said Sounis.I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of...
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