My gift is that I always know when I’ve made an ass of myself.
She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.
That prison, I said with heartfelt sincerity, Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life. I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been fi...
I do believe that Akretenesh saw no differences between a woman who was a queen and one who was a seamstress, though he would recognize all the differences in the world between a prince and a farmer.
I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least...
I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away.
If there is anything else you desire, Your— I desire—the king interrupted in a level voice—never again to see your living face.
To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money.
He reached for a tabletop and ran his hands over it, clutching the edge until his knuckles turned white.He wanted to know that it was solid. Eddis knew that all the world would seem to him insubstanti...
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.
I lied.
Keeping a private guard this large is like using a wolf to guard the farm. It may keep off the other wolves, but sooner or later it will eat you.
I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.
Where there is no peace, there are no trees.
If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.
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...
Least said, soonest mended.
He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis....
I inherited this country when I was only a child, Nahuseresh. I have held it. I have fought down rebellious barons. I've fought Sounis to keep the land on this side of the mountains. I have killed men...
He felt a chill on the back of his neck. It was self-doubt, the black beetle that had pursued him all his life, pinching at him, poisoning his every success, whispering in his ear about his flaws and...
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