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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c9606a4 | Chancellor said, 'She is concerned for your future.' 'She is concerned for her dog and her cat,' Lymond said. 'It is a Somerville failing. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 4a4b460 | But exceed! exceed! | Aleister Crowley | ||
| dba61f8 | Something comes out of every voyage,' said the other man sharply. 'Out of every bloody fruitless endeavour. All the striving after the unknowable. The unattainable, the search for Athor, the creative force, rolled into a circle. You with your quest; I with my care-ridden Emperor; Sir Thomas, sitting before the fire, his bowels burning before him. We add something. If we didn't add something, there would be no object in it. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6e3e554 | What he wanted was very near. It was typical of the monstrous, egregious, laughable irony which dominated his life that with every dragging lift of his arms, he should be saying over and over, | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| c21a638 | He has the exact Crawford colouring.' 'Egg mimicry,' said Lymond. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b313a63 | From the door, he glanced back, once, at the unresponsive wreck of the room. 'Then God damn your soul!' he said, and walked out. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| bad93d0 | Adam said, 'Christ!' and Danny Hislop, wriggling past said, 'No. Lord Culter, I do declare. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 3ed4de4 | What shall we do with him? We have him at our mercy. Think of all the browbeaten Streltsi at Vorobiovo who would like to take their revenge at this moment. We could hire out his carcass for | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 96fea8d | He got everyone out of the room, keeping Danny. Danny stood, his hands dangling unhelpfully. 'Well?' he said. 'Adam is your man, you know, for sensitive nursing.' D'Harcourt, his hands pressing through Lymond's hair, said, 'But just think how he is going to enjoy finding you watching him when he wakes up. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 2465557 | And Hislop?' said Lymond softly. 'Don't sound so aggrieved. There are no rewards, celestial or mundane, for the best display of pure, bloody inquisitiveness.' Which drove Ludovic d'Harcourt to a deduction, five minutes later, as Daniel Hislop marched into his room. 'Let me make a guess. He is awake.' 'He's awake. The honeymoon,' said Danny, 'is over. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 9c9b9ea | I don't know what you want to be called.' 'Home, like the cattle?' said Lymond. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 063d29a | I don't object to being called by my Christian name, on purely social occasions. The Russian version was Frangike. Rather scented, I thought. Or alternatively, like a new brand of onion. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 2fad793 | Are we going to have a sensible discussion?' she said. 'Well, you are sensible,' Lymond said. 'And I am not unconscious, yet. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 080add4 | He never said what he meant. He never said what he meant.... All through their encounters, their clashes, their crossing of swords she had known that and learned a little to deal with it, and to translate, if only to herself, what lay under the stream of hurtful, facile words. And, suddenly, this time she felt panic, a seizure of fear so unexpected that she stared at him, quite unseeing, listening to the tone of the words. And then she saw .. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 245b9df | Philippa thinks of you, as she thinks of me, as a rather run-down institution for indigent imbeciles. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| ed0993f | They told me that if I didn't come back, they would force you to marry?' In the plain, sensible face, the brown eyes were derisive. 'Is that why you came back?' said Kate Somerville. 'No. I knew you could handle it.' 'Thank you,' said Kate. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| ea35a8c | It's time you thought less of your emotional feather bed and more of other people's. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| aebd5a3 | You don't know what you're doing,' Lymond said. 'You're performing a play, in a schoolroom, for an excited audience of one. I said Below the long, taffeta bodice, Philippa's interior had begun to ravel with cramp pains. She said hardily, 'Nothing, so far. I didn't know another permutation in breeding was possible.' There was another brief pause. Then Lymond said pleasantly, 'I would strike a man who was stupid enough to say that to me. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| f8e307c | To Lymond, she said, 'I didn't ask. I don't care what you are going to say. I don't care. I don't care. These things have got to be said. Everyone is frightened to speak to you.' 'But I allow no one--no one at all, to speak to me like this,' Lymond said. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 5b1be0d | I don't need to strike you. Words will do just as well. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| c643c53 | You are offered love and won't accept it except on your own terms. That isn't tragic. It's the word you've just mentioned--it's childish. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| fd79b1a | She helps everybody ... Wait until you are wed. She'll do your breathing for you. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 0ab592d | As if nothing had happened.' 'Well. Nobody knows. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| ea581ad | Blacklock, Adam, is drawing maps,' Danny said. 'Having been offered the position of cartographer with the Muscovy Company at twenty pounds per annum when you have departed, and having accepted with alacrity. D'Harcourt, Ludo, has got a new woman at Smithfield. Neither of them is likely to burst in on us.' 'And you?' Lymond said. He did not, to Danny's regret, address him as | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 58bbb33 | Allowed?' said Marthe. 'I have finished with asking permission for what I do and what I think. I have finished with being dispatched scurrying from errand to errand. I am my own mistress now. I am going to move the pieces. I am going to direct the end of the game. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| d8b9af8 | If you wish to carry this paper from France and deliver it into Lord Culter's hands,' he said, 'I know of no power which would stop you, unless an earthly one.' 'And that,' said Daniel Hislop, 'is the first totally accurate prediction I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. Give me that. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| f1adf73 | We all die,' said Nostradamus. 'The man you love. The man who loves you. The man you married. But because of you there will be something, I promise you, by which men will know Francis Crawford has been. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6da40bf | My part in the prophecy is fulfilled. Yours has still to come. Whatever made you think you were free? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| ccf4b05 | He was not at all sure that it was wise, but it seemed to be what Francis wanted, and that he should want anything was of moment. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 625f86e | If I did not know how to live, I shall know how to die. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 9e0433b | Modern war is fought by a number of strong, sweaty horsemen with constipation, who have their eyes on power, on wealth and on glory, and who obey the rules just when it pleases them. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| cb11d24 | Because,' said Crawford, as if he hadn't spoken, 'you ought to remember that Philippa has been trained in Turkey and will expect certain standards if you mean to make an impression, whether as her first client or her bigamous husband. I could provide some instruction.' Austin walked to the door. 'Or a demonstration?' said the other man wistfully. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 322da36 | The trouble with you, M. le comte de Sevigny, is that you're too god-damned autocratic. From now on, you will kindly remember that a good military tactician requires the support of a team. We are your team. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6f9a478 | Unlike Kate, this girl had broken from her setting. All that Kate was, she now had. And standing on Kate's shoulders, something more, still growing; blossoming and yet to fruit. All that he was not. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 460e0b0 | I am thinning you down for the ,' said Lymond, still reading. 'Have we missed a meal?' 'We have missed two meals,' said Danny Hislop with precision. 'And God knows how many drinks. I haven't been working at all well. Hislops need lubrication. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| a44323a | Oh,' said Philippa. 'Checkmate,' Lymond said. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| a98e69c | There was a brief silence, during which Philippa Somerville fought and won a battle to keep her eyes dry. Lymond said, 'I give you my word. It was a lie.' Philippa looked at him. 'And I don't deserve ,' she said. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| a3a2c52 | As everyone keeps insisting, parentage doesn't matter. Love him for what he is. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 13f65b6 | Oh, well. I don't mind helping you to feel guilty if you must. On the other hand, I should point out that of all our various encounters, today is the only time you have favoured me with two civil words in sequence. I found it quite worrying. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b50a5b0 | What can be done for these headaches?' [...] 'Short of execution,' Lymond said, 'I think the problem is insoluble. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 3113820 | Because, I think, of something you said. One should be able to face anything. I have learned to play chess again. I have learned to listen to music, and to play it. I have learned to buy self-indulgence and enjoy it. I have learned to take a line of logic and follow it through, whatever the consequences. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6b9cea5 | So long as you allow yourself that kind of self-indulgence, you can expect to have headaches. If you can face anything, then face up to the one basic fact in all this. You told Mikal once, in Thessalonika, that you have never loved anyone. That was a lie. You feel for Sybilla quite as much as she has always felt for you. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6808a70 | No!' said Master Bailey loudly. 'No, you'll not get these lads to leave me. They're good English lads, and they're here to protect me and mine.' 'From Mistress Philippa?' Lymond said hopefully. 'From you and your mercenaries, you contrary churl! | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| c4e8b8f | The master had gone very red. 'My lord, there can only be one who commands on a ship.' 'That is correct. And you have kindly handed me your authority for a day,' Lymond said. 'Go and sleep. I shall give you your ship back at nightfall.' His jaw jutting, the master turned on Lord Culter. 'I will stand security for him,' said Richard gravely. 'If he chips the shaft of an oar, I shall pay for it. | Dorothy Dunnett |