Quotes from Megan Whalen Turner

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Nahuseresh tells me I am not king. We'll see if he really prefers the Thief.

Odd that you could be so angry at someone and devoted to him at the same time.

That is it, Sophos. You have hit upon my greatest fear. Someone who named himself Bunny is going to outshine me on the battle field.

Speaking of the king to the queen--He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

Lying is just letting people believe what they want to be true.

lay there on my pallet, hoping it would improve soon and wondering, in a distant, unreproachful sort of way, if I was any kind of man at all, and decided that I probably wasn't.

being defenseless didn't preclude attack.

Servants, in my experience, always know everything.

He has a lot of coats, said Philologos soberly.

We do better when we are praised and worse when we feel unappreciated for our work.

What would you do if you were King's Thief, Gen? Chew with your mouth open in the royal presence? Chat with the court ladies, dropping the h's at the beginning of your words and garbling the ends of most of them? Everything about you reveals your low birth. You'd never be comfortable at the court.

Will you sit down and stop shouting?" she asked. "I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

When a messenger on a lathered horse comes to the city, he draws the eye of every person in the road. They see his direction. As he turns up the streets toward the palace, Rumor, who is born in a moment, is full-grown the next. She begins to move through the town, trailing ever more elaborate finery behind her.

The Attolian king obviously had a deep well of spite and I would've appreciated his low cunning more if I hadn't thought the Attolian was about to wring my neck.

Not everything that is easy for you is easy for the rest of us. Why don't you go away, Dionis?

The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the very one whose hand she had cut off. There was a match made in hell.

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

where there is no peace, there are no trees.

It might have been preferable, Eddis admitted, dryly, if you had thrown off your chains of bondage solely for love of me. It would certainly have been more flattering. Standing so near to him, she was looking up into his face and watching it closely. I am willing to accept, however, that we are real people, not characters in a play. We do not, all of us, need to be throwing inkwells. If we are compatible with one another, is that not sufficient?

Does he expect me to rise from my death bed to fight with him? the king asked. I thought you said you weren't dying I've reconsidered.

Faith did return in extremis

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 don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot." "I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you." "I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.