The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
On the bed, Eugenides stirred restlessly. Upset at the sight of blood? he said. Not my wife, Ornon.Your blood, the ambassador pointed out.Eugenides glanced at the hook on his arm and conceded the poin...
One by one, the silence by the bed drew their attention. Even the king was quiet. Exhausted, relieved, he lay boneless and silent. The skin was dragged thin across his cheekbones. His sweaty hair stuc...
What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.
The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the very one whose hand she had cut off. There was a match made in hell.
You're awake, he said.Phresine is not, pointed out the queen.Oh?You gave her lethium.She gave it to me first.
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...
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
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...
Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably...
The flat top of the hill was scattered with the bodies of dead men in the uniforms of Sounis and Eddis. The outposts of both armies had met here. As I stood staring, I thought, These are my dead. All...
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...
Power. What men like best for themselves and least in their women.
Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as safely dead?
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...
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...
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Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether I am on a rafter three stories up or on a staircase three steps up, I...
She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.
The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I...
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