I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away.
Only through pain can you be sure of the truth
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.
Your Majesty, what I am saying is that I have never seen him driven, and rarely led either. However, if you were to twist him around your finger and could conceivably grind him under your heel in the...
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
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...
I love stupid plans.
I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!
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 think a good book is a good book forever.I don't think they get less good because times change.
You will make the boy Thief king? he said. When you could have had me?Attolia allowed a slight smile.A fine revenge for the loss of a hand, said the Mede, close to snarling.I will have my sovereignty,...
She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.And? Eddis prompted.Well, said Eugenides, it's a challenge.
She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.
Oh, Lady, said the woodcutter, my hurt is overwhelming because it is someone else's pain that makes me cry.
In the silent aftermath, I said, We'll give them a second chance.With my right hand, I reached to the other pocket. I had known as soon as I lifted the false bottom in the gun case and looked undernea...
In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to the throne; he dances with others or he moves from place to place through the room. The court thinks he is trying to be gracious, sharing his atten...
If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.
I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.
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 am so sick of people who all seem to be smarter than I am and know more than I do. I wanna go back to the farm. These people make my family look easy to get along with.