"Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?" He looked around the room at the other attendants as if in… - Megan Whalen Turner

I stifled a snort of my own in the silence that followed. The magus must have still been tired. He must have once known, but forgotten, that the minister of war had married the daughter of the previous King's Thief. He was talking to my father. The magus might have remembered this, might have recognized me from the first time he'd seen me in Sounis, but we had never been introduced. When he'd come with Sounis's marriage proposals, I had been sulking in my rooms.

Be cautious," said the other. "Do not offend the gods.

Then, as you well know, Eugenides looked me in the eye as if I were a complete stranger and said, "The simplest way to end a war is to admit you have lost it."
The silence after that was not polite.