Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
Who am I, that you should love me?
The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead in the hollow of the queen's shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day.
You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.
If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.
These people make my family look easy to get along with.
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance, never forget that it's as likely to step on your foot as look at you.
I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.
A thief never makes a noise by accident.
I am very good at groveling.
So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me." "While I think you'll marry Sophos." "I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.
He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.
She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.
Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.
I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.
You are treasure beyond any price.
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.
I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.
No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my last breath as a noose tightens, to the last beat of my heart if I hang from the walls of the palace, you are My Queen. That I have failed you does not change my love for you or my loyalty.
She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.
The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.
I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?
He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are called for, we can find a larger ball and chain." The queen turned and disappeared into the partment. "Oh, dear," Eugenides muttered as he followed...The queen's sterner measures, dispensed by the Eddisian Ambassador, arrived before dawn.
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