He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

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." She [Edwina] gestured to the curtain behind her. "I broke my back. My spine is all wobbly now, but it doesn't hurt.

Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

[I had a]...Second bowl of oatmeal. It was a little bit gloppy.

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.