Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.

— Conn Iggulden

Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

— Conn Iggulden

The man attempted to salute and Genius forced himself to smile, biting back his temper at the sloppy manners. He watched the fat figure run away into the buildings and wiped the first beads of sweat from his brow. Strange that such men as that should understand loyalty where so many others threw it aside at the first hint of freedom.

— Conn Iggulden

The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.

— Conn Iggulden

There are many who say ‘I believe this,’, but would they hold true to those beliefs if their children were threatened? No. But Genghis would. If you told him you would kill his children, he would tell you to go ahead, but realize that the cost would be infinite, that he would tear down cities and nations and the price would never be paid. He did not lie, and his enemies knew it. His word was iron.

— Conn Iggulden

There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.

— Conn Iggulden

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 Yanking and Karakorum. To survive, to grow, we must remain strong. We must conquer new lands, so that our army is always fed, always moving. To stop is to die, Chapatti.

— Conn Iggulden

There is no escape from me, not even in death.

— Conn Iggulden

The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.

— Conn Iggulden

The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.

— Conn Iggulden