The minister of war snorted. "Not if he had to follow you on a horse," he said. - Megan Whalen Turner

Do you warn him not to offend the gods?"
"There was no need," said Attolis, smiling, "He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.

Grown more confident of the queen's humor, Relius said, "I had not pictured you for a fishwife."
"Lo, the transforming power of love."

I think he was delighted to see you safe," said the magus, "and grieved that the next time you meet, it must be as king and king and not as friends.