“Costis flinched and looked away from this compensation to the king’s handicap, only to find himself staring directly into the king’s face instead. Eugenides matched Costis look for look, his expression grave, his eyes like pools of darkness deeper than Costis could penetrate. For a moment Costis could see, not so much what was hidden but that there were things hidden that the king did not choose to reveal. Things that were not for Costis to see. There was no understanding him, but Costis knew he would march into hell for this fathomless king, as he would for his queen. So long, he worried, as they didn’t order him in opposite directions at the same time. What he would do when that happened, Costis couldn’t guess.”
― The King of Attolia
― The King of Attolia
“You don’t know what I mean. She is so strong, and you assume that strength has no end, no breaking point. You and Teleus are among the few she still trusts enough to love, and you say yes, she should have you tortured and killed. What were you thinking?”
― The King of Attolia
― The King of Attolia
“Your Majesty, what I am saying is that I have never seen him driven, and rarely led either. However, if you were to twist him around your finger and could conceivably grind him under your heel in the process, you have to know that I would be eternally grateful. I would die a happy man.”
― The King of Attolia
― The King of Attolia
“Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as “safely dead”?”
― The King of Attolia
― The King of Attolia
“I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.”
― The King of Attolia
― The King of Attolia
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