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“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“I prize freedom of the mind above freedom of the body.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“The darts which make me suffer are my own.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Words is but wind but dunts is the devil”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“This officer, but doubt, is callit deid.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“...You are the only person with a shaky interest in ethics and the emotional stability of a quince seed in a cup of lukewarm water.....”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Speak, she said, as you would write: as if your words were letters of lead, graven there for all time, for which you must take the consequences. And take the consequences.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play

“I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights

“What to do when attacked at sea, lessons one to ten. They had spent their first morning at sea being trained, remorselessly, by Francis Crawford for this precise event. ‘I know what to do,’ said Philippa. ‘Offer them the raspberry wine and keep them talking till Mother comes in.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense