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Being defenseless didn't preclude attack.

A thief never makes a noise by accident.

Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.

The soldier stooped to bring his lips close enough to my ear to say very quietly, "My king blames your master for the loss of his hand." That,

if you tease a dog, it bites.

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

Will there be poppy juice in it?"
Phresine shook her head.
"Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

We could make a treaty without a marriage."
"No," he said.
"You are sure?"
"Yes," he said.

Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as "safely dead"?

Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.

That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

I want my breakfast.

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.

I will forgive him because I have heard him scream when someone pulled a sword out of him that could have just as easily gone into me.
Sophos

Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?

His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

Pol knew," said Sophos from the window.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

where there is no peace, there are no trees.

I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?

My gift is that I always know when I've made an ass of myself.

Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

Attolia had brushed Eugenides's cheek almost shyly before sending him with a wave back to his own couch.

I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.

She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.

Damn him, damn him, damn him.

Because you do not believe?"
"Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship.

He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.

Do not offend one power to attain the favor of another.

A natural! A natural!

[I had a] ... Second bowl of oatmeal. It was a little bit gloppy.

He said the only thin worse than being wrong in a family argument was being right.

I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!

Eddis stared at him for a long time, knowing that forgiving someone because you have to is not forgiving him at all.

Least said, soonest mended.

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls ... She's too precious to give up.

If the king could make a throne seem like a stool fit for a printer's apprentice, the queen could make a rumpled bedspread into a throne.

Useless the Elder was looking at me in amusement. "Not exactly stalwart, are you?" he said.

I love stupid plans.

Unkingly, in so many ways, My King.

No! No! I'll get the ten cups, I swear it!

Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I'd failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.

Only through pain can you be sure of the truth

Keeping a private guard this large is like using a wolf to guard the farm. It may keep off the other wolves, but sooner or later it will eat you.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away.

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

Servants, in my experience, always know everything.

Where are my guards, Teleus? He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.

My opponent's self-confidence is usually my best asset.

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

I am very good at groveling.

I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.

I am not sure I trust you."
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

Kings don't move mountains as a favor to a friend,

Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

to be underestimated by an enemy is the greatest advantage a man can have.

Oh gods, stairs.

Thank you, thief."
"You're welcome, my queen.

That is ridiculous," she said.
The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.

If there is anything else you desire, Your - " "I desire" - the king interrupted in a level voice - "never again to see your living face.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth ...

I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.

A little danger adds spice to life.

Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.

They are all accepted," I said. It wasn't important anymore.

All the things man has made are eventually destroyed.

If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?

Weak kings who lost their tempers were notoriously destructive.

Oh, Lady," said the woodcutter, "my hurt is overwhelming because it is someone else's pain that makes me cry.

Even a steadfast enemy was better than a waffler.

Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing.

To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money.

I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change.

Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.

Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.

You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

And she had the most appealing of feminine virtues, especially in a queen. She's easily led.

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

The younger one looked to be completely useless.

No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

Dying would have been so much easier.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

It was like being lectured by an earnest, oversized child.

You are treasure beyond any price.

Don't match your weakness against your opponent's strength

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known.

Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.