Perhaps you can bring out better in them?Eugenides shook his head. I pulled the carpet out from under them very thoroughly. They will not cross me, but they won't love me, either. I am not Eddis. Peop...
Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.
Relius looked away. He said that you...cried, he said softly.But not that he cried as well, said the queen, amused at the memory. We were very lachrymose... would you like to hear more romance of the...
Unkingly, in so many ways, My King.
I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.
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,...
I was captivated. My own hair was easily as long as Olga's, but it frizzed and knotted at every opportunity. When it was combed, it didn't float in perfect fans down to my shoulders.
I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window.You what?Fell out the window. That one over there. She [Edwina] gestured to the curtain behind her. I broke my back. My s...
I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?
I'll be your minister--Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind.I would never steal from you, he'd said hotly.Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?That necklace was hideous....
If Attolia could look like a queen, Eugenides was like a god revealed, transformed into something wholly unfamiliar, surrounded by the cloth-of-gold bedcover like a deity on an altar, passionless and...
Irene-Don't call me that.You were the princess Irene the first time we met.It means 'peace', Attolia said. What name could be more inappropriate?That I be named Helen? Eddis suggested.The hard lines i...
Why didn't you tell me to take Attolia's advice from the beginning?I thought you should figure it out. What you learn for yourself, you will know forever, said Eugenides.Pol used to say that, said Sou...
No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.
Oh gods, stairs.
Oh, that, said the king with a shrug. That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who...
Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come.
He thought that when he had healed sufficiently, and withdrawn from the capital, he might write the magus a letter and open a correspondence on Euclid, or Thales, or the new idea from the north, that...
He wondered how the Attolians thought Eugenides had managed to become king if he was the idiot they assumed him to be. Perhaps because they had never seen him as the Thief, with his head thrown back a...
I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the...
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