Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?

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

You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.

He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last." The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain. "Was that a joke?" he asked.

We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge.

Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.