You didn't know I could do that, did you? he asked, conversationally.I did not, Your Majesty, Teleus gasped.My grandfather killed a man that way once, using the edge of the wooden sword.I hadn't reali...
Were you lying?I never lie, he said piously. About what?The sand, the snake.For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.
Weak kings who lost their tempers were notoriously destructive.
Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.
Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come.
Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. He would have been a better man under different circumstances.Gen looked at him. True enough, he said. But does a good man let his circumstances determine his cha...
He thought that when he had healed sufficiently, and withdrawn from the capital, he might write the magus a letter and open a correspondence on Euclid, or Thales, or the new idea from the north, that...
Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.
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...
I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
Will you sit down and stop shouting? she asked. I’ll stop shouting. I won’t sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.
I was listening, the king said, aggrieved. I closed my eyes to listen better.What did you hear?I'm not sure, he said. That's why I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some...
Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal.....
If you tease a dog, it bites.
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.
If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show him to them. And I would take Attolia's advice because if I identified my enemy and destroyed him, S...
It was like being lectured by an earnest, oversized child.
Ten thousand! I shouted at the walls, back in the room with the wooden shutters, now open, so that anyone could hear me, on the porch or probably across the compound. That bastard landed at Tas-Elis...
Ornon says, Ornon-who-always-has-something-to-say says, the Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. That's what makes us dangerous. -Eugenides
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