I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.

The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.

A thief never makes a noise by accident.

I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.