Stories

His Shadowy Hand: "Two days ago, I was a mother and a wife. Tonight, I am neither."
Demon-Haunted: "Did you hear it speaking to me? Did it truly tell me that someone wants to kill Sextus' line...to hurt me?"
Distant Thunder: "If someone is trying to frame him...well, I can name two people off the top of my head who have a strong interest in seeing him at least fall from power, if not die."
Widow's Weeds: "If I were here to accuse you of murdering my husband, I wouldn't have come with only one person in tow."
The Path of Thorns: "I don't actually ever plan on sleeping well again, Lukas."
The Road to Hell: "Stay with me a bit longer, Menaris. I want to know who Constantius is."
The Truth in the Lie: "Kill the man, take the daughter...and do what with the wife? That's my worry."
The Shell Game: "At least I didn't have to kill Maranis. I hit him kind of hard, though."
A Woman of Uneasy Virtue: "Your pardon, sir, but I think the next time I see your son I'm going to strangle him."
The Dark Riddles: "After everything else I know about you, Linaeus, your eyes are probably the least of it."
The Labyrinths: "But, honestly, I'm not certain in whose hands I'd really want to leave the Empire."
The Heir Apparent: "It falls to you, as her guardian, to take care of her finances until she reaches the age of twenty-one."
The Subtle Web: "She does love you, you know."
The Angel in the House: "You and I knew two very different versions of Magentius, then."
Ananke and Moirae [Necessity and Fate]: "I have no idea what might have brought them here, but shall we go see why they have the house surrounded?"
The Reason You Fall, The Moment You Fly: "The farther I get into this, the more I marvel at the fact that any of you are even still sane."
The Flower That Shatters the Stone: "I hope you go to the same hell that I sent Pollius to."
Epilogue: The Fate of Empires: "In my earliest memories, my mother is a small woman who blazed with a fierce internal light, and who I loved with a single-minded devotion."