“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“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