Demon Princes

Jack Vance

My 9 highlights

  • Her features were big and moist; her hair was short, mouse-brown, crimped and tied with string.
  • In regard to Darsh food, the less said the better. The traveler must adjust himself to a Darsh meal as he might a natural catastrophe.
  • Sabra, on the shore of the north polar sea, was a drab haphazard city with a heterogeneous population whose main goal was to earn sufficient money to go elsewhere.
  • She was either extremely poised or vastly indifferent.
  • “Your largesse is not of the ‘regal’ variety. The people of Sarkovy respect reckless liberality above all other virtues.”
  • Gersen’s mind had become tired; he was bored with his problems and saw no way to escape them.
  • Navarth ordered dinner with enthusiasm and finesse; never had Gersen enjoyed a finer meal: one which made him regret the limits imposed by the capacity of his stomach.
  • The woman’s avarice is matched only by the vileness of her cuisine.”
  • Like Earth, Navarth was old, irresponsible and melancholy, full of a dangerous mirth.