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- ... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.
- 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."…
- Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew…
- The younger one looked to be completely useless.
- The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above…
- That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell…
- Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can…
- From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule," he whispered. "That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves…
- 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,…
- She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus. There is the…
- The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might…
- Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying. "Green wood,"…
- One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination…
- 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…
- 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…
- One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.
- If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
- I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.
- Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.
- No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the…
- You will make the boy Thief king?" he [Nahuseresh] said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine revenge for…
- 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,…
- He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to…
- That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.
- After one moment of gripped immobility, the queen bent to kiss the king lightly on one closed eyelid, then on the other. She said, 'I…
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