He didn’t trust them. But he did trust their greed. - Ian Tregillis

The duke was right about you."\n"He survived? That's a shame.

Well," he said, "you must be feeling very proud of yourself right now."\n"It occurs to me that I might be an underappreciated genius." She paused to clutch the mast again during a particularly hard gust. "But I'll tell you something. It's not so wonderful, learning you were right all along to suspect the world is conspiring against you.

He’d expected torture. He hadn’t expected surgery.