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“God had mercy, he knew. The Mongols had none.”
“There is no escape from me, not even in death.”
“Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.”
“The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.”
“He would never understand women, he thought. They were lifes great mystery.”
“He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.”
“Those who cannot conquer must bend the knee. They must find strength, or serve those of us who have. You are my generals. I will send you out: my hunting dogs, my wolves with iron teeth. When a cit...”
“They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khans family at a very young age. She...”
“Get up, she said. Get up, my lord. If you do not have long, there is still much to do. You must not waste another day, another morning! Take hold of your life with both hands and crush it to you, m...”
“There is a world outside the one we know, he said softly, with cultures and races and armies who have never heard of us. Yes, and cities greater than Yenking and Karakorum. To survive, to grow, we ...”
“The world has grown too large for one army of the nation, my brother. You will ride where I tell you to ride, conquer where I tell you to conquer. The world is yours, if you can put aside the base ...”
“For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.”
“If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. Thats the way it ...”
“The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.”
“A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.”
“A brave man could conquer fear, he had learned that, but perhaps only for a time. It was something the young did not understand, the way it could gnaw at a man, the way it came back stronger every ...”
“You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of the wolf, not the whole wolf. I would have thought you had learned that when you were a boy, but it...”
“As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.”
“If he had learned anything from his fathers fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You ...”
“If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didnt matter what other people thought of himeven the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and ...”
