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.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Men, Choices, Decision

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• Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We were very lachrymose... would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head." "Is that when he cried?" "He ducked," said Attolia dryly. "I had not pictured you for a fishwife." "Lo, the transforming power of love.

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  Queens, Memories, Romance

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• Just asleep," Eddis reassured her. At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again and pressed her hand to her chest where it hurt.

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  Hurt, Hands, Voice

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

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  Kings, People, Knows

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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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• This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.

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  Stupid, Careers, Said

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• 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.

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  Mean, Thinking, Understanding

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Names, Needs

  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.40, HarperCollins

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• How do you know that, Philo, dear?" But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. "Because, Lamion, I am not as dumb as you think I am, even if you are." By the time Lamion had parsed this to make sure that there was in fact an insult at the end of it, Hilarion had laid a restraining hand on his arm.

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  Thinking, Hands, Dumb

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• Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wall he's going to hang for it, and so will his squad, most of whom are also nice men, and though I can't say I really care if your attendants hang, there are probably many people that do care, and would you please, please get down?" The king looked at him, eyes narrowed. "I don't think I've ever heard you say that many words in a row. You sounded almost articulate.

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  Kings, Wall, Nice

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• Please," he whispered. His voice was low but clear. "Don't hurt me anymore." Attolia recoiled. Once, as a child, she'd thrown her slipper in a rage and had knocked an amphora of oil from its pedestal. The amphora had been a favorite of hers. It had smashed, and the scent of the hair oil inside had lingered for days. She remembered the scent still, though she didn't know what in the stinking cell had brought it to mind.

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  Hurt, Children, Hair

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Queen of Attolia”, p.16, Harper Collins

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