He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to the throne; he dances with others or moves from place to place through the...
He would go east and fight the emperor’s wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn’t a matter of theory in a tiny office in the emperor’s palace. I...
I am an ambassador, Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. You cannot shoot.I don't mean to, I reassured him, still smiling. I adopted his soothing tones. Indeed, you are the only m...
I will forgive him because I have heard him scream when someone pulled a sword out of him that could have just as easily gone into me.--Sophos
I woke to find I had not been murdered in my sleep.
I'm sorry, Dite.Dite shrugged away the apology. You have spared my brother when you could have killed him and you have offered me escape from the cesspit of my family and this court. You know what it...
If she pardons people because she loves them, someday someone that she loves will betray her and all of Attolia with her. A queen must make sacrifices for the common good.
Just asleep, Eddis reassured her.At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again and pressed her hand to her chest where it...
My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them.They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance swept through the crowd like a reaping sickle through grain. Mouths...
She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to...
Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. He would have been a better man under different circumstances.Gen looked at him. True enough, he said. But does a good man let his circumstances determine his cha...
The Attolian king obviously had a deep well of spite and I would've appreciated his low cunning more if I hadn't thought the Attolian was about to wring my neck.
The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known.
The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the...
The king’s attendants remained, digesting the fact that their helpless, inept king had promised his wife to destroy the house of Erondites in six months and had done it in ninety-eight days.
They are all accepted, I said. It wasn’t important anymore.
Who am I, that you should love me?You are My Queen, said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth.Do you believe me? he asked. Y...
Wrong arm, dear.
You are wary of treachery?More wary of stupidity.
Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wall he's going to hang for it, and so will his squad, most of whom are also nice men, and though I ca...
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