Quotes from Conn Iggulden

The things I've seen ... no, the things I've done ." He shuddered slightly as memories flashed into his mind. "I was as innocent. I thought I understood the world, but I was little more than a child.

Nothing pleased the Mongols more than a good trick on the field of battle.

I have called those who had no tribe," he went on, "but still had honor and heeded the call of blood to blood. They rode us in trust. And I say to you all, there are no tribes under the sky father. There is only one Mongol nation and it begins this night, in this place.

We were so young then, but by the sky father, I am not that young man who had never seen the swollen dead. I am khan. It is done and I would not change it." He clenched his fist, taking pleasure in his own strength. "I will not let another stand in my place.

Our life is just a bird, which flies into illuminated window, and then flies away, again, into the darkness

He raised his head and summoned his endurance to take him farther. His body was finished, but he remembered Yesugei telling him a man's will could carry him long after the weak flesh had given up.

If you had been there, you would have beshit yourself, believe me.

Nothing is stronger than the bond between people who risk their lives fighting shoulder to shoulder

We only have one chance, even if the entire world rests on us.

Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world

A silver speaks it's own language, does it not?

They have kept us apart for a thousand generations, Kachiun. They have ridden us until we were nothing more than savage dogs. That is the past. I have brought us together and they will be trembling. I'll give them cause.

He trained every day with Eeluk and his bondsmen, and he knew that movement was the key to killing with swords. Any man could heave a blade around his head, but footwork separated a man from a master.

For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.

Every man should be khan in his own home.

A man must always have the possibility of a final choice between life and death. You can take him all the rest, but that never.

Life has ways to turn and curve in a way you don't expect. But, I wouldn't want to be different, no matter the suffering it brings. Too many futures have already been decided; it's good we can't now every detail because life would have been grey and it would turn in a boring kind of death

A single words are cruel burden to man if he doesn't learn not to pay attention on them.

This is no game of thrones, but real endings and real blood.

Your people will be torn from the land for this, Tartar. Your gers will burn and your herds will be scattered.

I thought a man could throw his best years against enemies and then die, feared and loved both. I still think that. But when I am gone, the cities will rebuild and they will not remember me.

A young man, who's marching like a leopard, can't keep himself by the mistakes of the past.

But I came to these lands because, when a man threatens me and I look away, he has taken something important from me. If I fight and die, all he can take is my life. My courage, my dignity, remain.

If they love you, they will do what you wish,but only WHEN they want to. If they fear you, they will do what you wish EXACTLY when you wish. So, is it better to love or fear you?