To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money.
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...
I’ll stop shouting. I won’t sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.
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...
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.
Sophos, you sleep with a knife under your pillow? I'm hurt.I'm sorry, said Sounis, afraid that he had made contact with his wild swing.I was joking. Wake up the rest of the way, would you?Gen, it's th...
I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away.
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it...My purse is full enough, said the magus, to keep you suppli...
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...
Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He fl...
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...
Did you send Attolia to me at the farewell? Eddis asked.Not I, said Gen quietly. The magus. I thought you knew that you loved him - the two of you have been like magnets drawing ever nearer to each ot...
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...
I lied.
Eddis looked around as if recalling a question that had nagged at her for several hours. Where's Eugenides? she asked.For a moment the Attolian queen was immobile, her smile gone as if it had never be...
Eddis looked at her minister, curious. Your head? she asked.Attolia explained. He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son.So have we all from time to time, Eddis said seriously.
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.
Where there is no peace, there are no trees.
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.
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...
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