Lymond Chronicles Quotes

“You don’t understand,’ she said. In her lap, the loose hands had ground together: between the fair brows a single line showed, of anger and disgust and a kind of futile perplexity. 'You don’t understand: how can you? You were born into a household, with parents and wealth; you knew your friends and your enemies; you knew your position in life; whom you were fighting for: whom you were against. I am alone. Every man is my enemy.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense

“Go to Flanders and your contracts, and leave the orgies to me.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play

“It was the English, mauled and unregarded, of a person who spoke many languages and left them broken-hinged and crumbled like clams, solely attacked for the meat.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play

“You are hell's own Apollo.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play