“It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.”
“If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.”
“Whore or courtesan, she put on a great little show.”
“When bananas blush, they turn brown, not red. And when tomatoes blush, you’ve probably said something really naughty.”
“She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.”
“When I say something, I mean what I say, despite what a dictionary says I mean. Meanings of words are slaves that I put to work constructing my pyramids of thought.”