On the bed, Eugenides stirred restlessly. Upset at the sight of blood? he said. Not my wife, Ornon.Your blood, the ambassador pointed out.Eugenides glanced at the hook on his arm and conceded the poin...
He didn't want to talk to Pol. Pol would want him to go somewhere on the back of a horse.
Lay there on my pallet, hoping it would improve soon and wondering, in a distant, unreproachful sort of way, if I was any kind of man at all, and decided that I probably wasn’t.
I lied.
The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might have calmed her, but she couldn't draw one. She wondered...
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.
My gift is that I always know when I’ve made an ass of myself.
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...
All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.
I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.
We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the hist...
If the king could make a throne seem like a stool fit for a printer's apprentice, the queen could make a rumpled bedspread into a throne.
The magus said thoughtfully, That lying little monster complained about everything: the food, the horses, the blankets, the company. He even found fault with the stories I told by the fire but I canno...
Least said, soonest mended.
Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing.
They're going to leave me. All I wanted to do was lie in the dry prickly grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you...
You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and y...
I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.
We would have died without the additional men, he admitted matter-of-factly. But we would have taken the entire Mede army with us. Poets would have written about us, and songs would have been sung abo...
Unable to guess the answer, she asked, '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 in...
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