Megan Whalen Turner Quotes

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

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  Men, Choices, Decision

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

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  Point Break, Gunpowder, Thieves

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

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  Kings, Queens, Flames

  "The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2006.

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

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  People, Looks, My Family

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• 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.

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  Wine, Wife, Juice

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• I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance, never forget that it's as likely to step on your foot as look at you.

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  Horse, Hate, Distance

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Kings, Wine, Giving

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• Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

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  Lying, Men, Snakes

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• I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.

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  Masters, Plans, Foolhardy

  "The Thief". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 1996.

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• I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

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  Boredom, Dying, Dying Of Boredom

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

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  Everyday, Mouths, Something New

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.46, HarperCollins

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• We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge.

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  Men, Thinking, Judging

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to the throne; he dances with others or moves from place to place through the room. The court thinks he is trying to be gracious, sharing his attention. Only I see that he moves always to the empty spot and the court always moves after him. He is like a dog trying to escape his own tail. He indulged himself in one brief moment of privacy, and almost died of it. Relius, he hates being king.

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  Dog, Kings, Hate

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• 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.

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  Race, Tortoises, Enough

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• The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

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  Queens, Grace, Bed

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• I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?" "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it." "My earrings?" "What earrings?

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  Missing, Necklaces, Way

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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• You will make the boy Thief king?" he [Nahuseresh] said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine revenge for the loss of a hand," said the Mede, close to snarling. "I will have my sovereignty," said Attolia thinly. "Oh, yes, a fine one-handed figurehead he will make," spat Nahuseresh. Then he remembered Attolia's flattery earlier that morning. "Or do I insult your lover?" he asked. "Not a lover," said Attolia. "Merely my choice for king.

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  Morning, Kings, Revenge

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• 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.

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  Loyalty, Giving, Easy

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

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  World, Get Up, Inverted

  "The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, February 2006.

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• The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

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  Rags, Lord

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.45, HarperCollins

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• She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.

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  Nurse, Darkness, Wish

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

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  Men, Breathing, Three

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

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  People, Unhappy, Wonder

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• "Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you."

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  Love You, Decision, Want

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

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• Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether I am on a rafter three stories up or on a staircase three steps up, I am in my god's hands. He will keep me safe, or he will not, here or on the stairs.

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  Fall, Hands, Safety

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