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.

This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.

That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.

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

All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.

Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.