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“In steppe epic, a steed and a sister are your trustiest, most intelligent and indefatigable aid: the hero doesn't have to be heroic, but these do.”

Epic Sisters Dedications Steppe

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls

“Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation.”

Truth Evil Honesty Trust Steppe

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls

“He only knows a single thing to clasp, that like God can't be split up into pieces: our honesty to one another.”

Book:Imaginary Kings

Source: Imaginary Kings

“Besides, they cast an eye to the past, they didn't disgrace the ground they trod and they believed in the future again. That's what a victory does for you.”

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls

“Such coincidences were the rhymes that God wrote into fate, his chords of music.”

God Fate Coincidence

Book:Imaginary Kings

Source: Imaginary Kings

“Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.”

Women Mothers Steppe

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls

“I am a neighbour king to stretch my branches over him, just as Toghrul sheltered me when I was a weed-stalk next to a strong tree.”

Friendship Leadership Humility

Book:Imaginary Kings

Source: Imaginary Kings

“Perceptions? Yesugei didn't give a goat's toenail about perceptions, but society was society. ... 'Who gives a billy's balls what one or two wives have to say?' 'Quite, father.' This was strong language, to cite the nether parts, stronger than toenails.”

Language Gossip Goats

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls

“For a few heady weeks of the year the steppe in a binge throws out a wilderness of flowers that tangle your hooves and confuse your horse.”

Flowers Springtime Horses Steppe

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls

“Spring weather is turbulent. Every afternoon for a fortnight a gang of bruise-coloured clouds grumbling with their brew slunk up to the massy black stone of the tor. After a face-off of pops and hisses the clouds slunk south, to burst into storm on the horizon.”

Weather Storms Steppe

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls

“And what did Bo'orchu answer? "Kids For Nokods." After that they ran away.”

Humour Steppe Nokods

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls

“The gallantry was the women's. ... The woman's chivalry in such circumstances is obviously expected.”

Women Chivalry Gallantry Steppe

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls

“The Mongols have been twenty years without a khan. Now is he your warm coat against the winter; unwrap him not. Now is he your neck-scarf of fur; discard him not.”

Book:Imaginary Kings

Source: Imaginary Kings

“If I laid a wager on which was to panic first, a block of granite or Jamuqa, I'd go the granite.”

Book:Imaginary Kings

Source: Imaginary Kings

“Hoelun stepped into her tent with thyme in her coatskirts that were hitched up in her belt, and leeks in her hat, that was off. The blue spire of bark she had worn as Yesugei's wife never left her, but often did more than perch on her head.”

Hats Mongols Leeks

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls

“Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.”

Love Dance Hips Elegance

Book:Against Walls

Source: Against Walls