“In battle nothing is ever as good or as bad as the first reports of excited men would have it.”
“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
“Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.”
“From what Ayyan had heard of the battles of the Brahmins, it would be bloodless but brutal. They would fight like demons armed with nothing more than deceit and ideals - another form of deceit among men from good families.”
“In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.”