These people make my family look easy to get along with.
There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal, Eddis said.So?If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides....
The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there.
That is ridiculous, she said.The king agreed. Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.
Tell me a story then...keep me occupied.A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?Insight, said the king, Go on.
Power. What men like best for themselves and least in their women.
Ornon said, I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard him once confess that he sometimes thinks the distance is beyon...
I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.
He thought that when he had healed sufficiently, and withdrawn from the capital, he might write the magus a letter and open a correspondence on Euclid, or Thales, or the new idea from the north, that...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 couldn’t know that I’d overstayed my welcome one night while creeping through his megaron and had crawled up through the space where the pipes of the hypocaust ran to hide in his treasure room. I h...
Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.
My opponent's self-confidence is usually my best asset.
We might someday attain a relationship of mutual respect, he said softly. First, I thought, I will see gods walking the earth. He went on. For now I will have your obedience. His ability to convey a w...
Then come out, said the king, helping him, knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.
The two soldiers laughed, and even the king smiled. Reinforcing Costis's suspicion that Eugenides had been responsible for Ornon's lost sheep, Boagus asked, Do you still baa like a lamb when he walks...
That won’t be necessary, said the magus coolly. No one would mistake you for anything but a tool, Gen. If a sword is well made, does the credit go to the blacksmith or to his hammer? How much smarter...
That sort of news travels faster than horses, faster than boats. The messengers of the gods carry rumors through the sky the way bees carry pollen and drop them from their wings onto the earth below.
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Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had fi...
No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.