“Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.”
Bryn Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal“And I saw you and I thought, she'd be a cosy fit inside my arm.”
Bryn Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal“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.”
Bryn Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal“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.”
Bryn Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal“Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.”
Bryn Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal“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.”
Bryn Hammond, Amgalant Two: Tribal Brawls“Temujin had had not the slightest notion that bad emotion can just grow and grow from inside you and squeeze out the universe.”
Bryn Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal“He only knows a single thing to clasp, that like God can't be split up into pieces: our honesty to one another.”
Bryn Hammond, Amgalant Two: Tribal Brawls“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.”
Bryn Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal“Such coincidences were the rhymes that God wrote into fate, his chords of music.”
Bryn Hammond, Amgalant Two: Tribal Brawls