The Two of Swords Quotes

“He took a couple of steps. “I clink,” he said. “It’s undignified.”
“Everybody clinks. It’s what soldiers do.”
― K.J. Parker, The Two of Swords: Part Five

“Why are there never eighty soldiers around when you need them?”
― K.J. Parker, The Two of Swords: Part Five

“Ah well. He’d beaten her twice sind then: once on their honeymoon, though he still suspected her of throwing the game, and once on the day she lost the baby. And two out of eight hundred and six wasn’t too bad, against such an opponent.”
― K.J. Parker, The Two of Swords: Part Five

“Ladies from fine old Imperial families shouldn’t sleep in tents and shit in ditches. Exactly what they were supposed to do all day nobody had quite figured out yet; be put away in cupboards when not in use seemed to be the prevailing opinion.”
― K.J. Parker, The Two of Swords: Part Five