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Being defenseless didn't preclude attack.
— Megan Whalen Turner
A thief never makes a noise by accident.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.
— Megan Whalen Turner
You just, barged in and flipped my entire world upside down," he says, voice heated. "I didn't know what to do.
— Katie Klein
I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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,
— Megan Whalen Turner
if you tease a dog, it bites.
— Megan Whalen Turner
If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
— Megan Whalen Turner
We could make a treaty without a marriage.""No," he said.
"You are sure?"
"Yes," he said. — Megan Whalen Turner
Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as "safely dead"?
— Megan Whalen Turner
Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I want my breakfast.
— Megan Whalen Turner
There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.
— Grover Whalen
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.
— Megan Whalen Turner
One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.
— Megan Whalen Turner
That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That'll teach me to go hide in a temple.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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 — Megan Whalen Turner
Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.
— Megan Whalen Turner
His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
— Megan Whalen Turner
It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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.
— Megan Whalen Turner
What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?
— Megan Whalen Turner
These people make my family look easy to get along with.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I am a master of foolhardy plans.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?
— Megan Whalen Turner
The only thing I knew was that I didn't know anything, really, about the king of the Attolians, and I didn't trust him.
— Megan Whalen Turner
He didn't want to talk to Pol. Pol would want him to go somewhere on the back of a horse.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Attolia had brushed Eugenides's cheek almost shyly before sending him with a wave back to his own couch.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.
— Megan Whalen Turner
You are wary of treachery?""More wary of stupidity. — Megan Whalen Turner
The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.
— Megan Whalen Turner
They are all accepted," I said. It wasn't important anymore.
— Megan Whalen Turner
No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Wrong arm, dear.
— Megan Whalen Turner
My insides twist in a flurry of excitement, and I stiflethe laugh welling inside.
Parker Whalen knows I'm alive. — Katie Klein
Unkingly, in so many ways, My King.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.
— Megan Whalen Turner
This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said."I love stupid plans," said Eugenides. — Megan Whalen Turner
That he'd seen ... two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.
— Megan Whalen Turner
You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.
— Megan Whalen Turner
And she had the most appealing of feminine virtues, especially in a queen. She's easily led.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Everybody. Just. Calm.Down.
— Michael Whalen
You are treasure beyond any price.
— Megan Whalen Turner
The younger one looked to be completely useless.
— Megan Whalen Turner
No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.
— Megan Whalen Turner
He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Useless the Elder was looking at me in amusement. "Not exactly stalwart, are you?" he said.
— Megan Whalen Turner
It was like being lectured by an earnest, oversized child.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Maybe I can stalk you again sometime." "Absolutely. — Katie Klein
I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.
— Megan Whalen Turner
If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth ...
— Megan Whalen Turner
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
— Megan Whalen Turner
That is ridiculous," she said.The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice. — Megan Whalen Turner
Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.
— Philip Whalen
The Lord of Rags and Tatters.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Don't match your weakness against your opponent's strength
— Megan Whalen Turner
To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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?
— Megan Whalen Turner
My opponent's self-confidence is usually my best asset.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Dying would have been so much easier.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I love stupid plans.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls ... She's too precious to give up.
— Megan Whalen Turner
to be underestimated by an enemy is the greatest advantage a man can have.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Servants, in my experience, always know everything.
— Megan Whalen Turner
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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.
— Megan Whalen Turner
And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.
— Megan Whalen Turner
If there is anything else you desire, Your - " "I desire" - the king interrupted in a level voice - "never again to see your living face.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.
— Megan Whalen Turner
A little danger adds spice to life.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Oh gods, stairs.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Treachery," said the Mede."Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name. — Megan Whalen Turner
All the things man has made are eventually destroyed.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Sugar, the things we hold closest to our hearts are the things we just can't seem to see. Jackson Whalen
— Suzanne Palmieri
Thank you, thief.""You're welcome, my queen. — Megan Whalen Turner
I woke to find I had not been murdered in my sleep.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Weak kings who lost their tempers were notoriously destructive.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Did life add to or take away from who we are at sixteen? The
— Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
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.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I think a good book is a good book forever.I don't think they get less good because times change. — Megan Whalen Turner
Even a steadfast enemy was better than a waffler.
— Megan Whalen Turner
