“Ah," said the magus, understanding at once. "I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again."
"Surely that's unlikely," said Sounis.
"I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us," said the magus.”

—  Megan Whalen Turner, book A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

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