And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.
That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.
Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?'Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glitt...
Upset at the sight of blood? he said. Not my wife, Ornon.Your blood, the ambassador pointed out. Eugenides glanced at the hook in his arm and conceded the point. Yes, he said.
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...
Nahuseresh had attributed her reluctance to an entirely understandable female timidity. He didn’t seem to understand that the people of Eddis had very little to do all winter beyond develop superior a...
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...
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
Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.