Quotes
“You don’t like him?” asked Aufors, wondering whether the man had gone mad on the job or been hired because he was mad enough for the job. There were jobs where madness was an asset. The military was full of them.
p. 105
According to Mama, nine-tenths of King Arthur was questing and the other tenth was politics.
p. 241
Don’t take me for a fool, lovely girl. We fat old things have not laid aside our brains with our silhouettes.
p. 324
Fairy things don’t impress cats. Fairy things and holy things. Cats are, perhaps, a separate creation.
p. 57
“An itchy man is prey to discontent; he’ll suage his flea bites with the blood of kings.”
Surely the common man wouldn’t want that!”
“What common men want most is beer and sex, without disturbances.”
p. 140
The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden’s virginity, while risking the maiden’s neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.
p. 10
“As good Catholic children, our destiny was to be guilty over sex, to have lots of babies, and to partake of the sacraments sufficiently often to assure that we’d go to heaven when we died.”
“Right,” said Bertran. “And in the fundamentalist church down the block, they learned their destiny was to be guilty over sex, to worship the flag (in defiance of the first and second commandments), and to be born again sufficiently often to assure they’d go to heaven when they died, though I’m not sure whether it was the same heaven or not. In fact, the only real difference between us and them was whether we ranked sperm or the flag slightly ahead of god.”
p. 360
I have noticed that cats are little impressed by religion.
p. 38
“I think he is a wicked man.”
Sam said doggedly, “Are you so sure he is wicked, Lilla? Perhaps, away from here, he might change.”
“We Gharm have a saying. Perhaps, away from the pond, the frog would grow feathers.”
p. 408
It was her way to start each conversation with an apology, so she could be offended when the apology was accepted.
p. 101
He did a lot of disputation and he always raised his voice when his logic was weak.
p. 447
All men believed they had their own magics in bed.
p. 120
