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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

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  Pain, Men, Want

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• All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

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  Responsibility, Loss, Choices

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

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• I want you to steal something." I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you." "If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated. My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.

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  Kings, Voice, Gold

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• On the bed, Eugenides stirred restlessly. "Upset at the sight of blood?" he said. "Not my wife, Ornon." "Your blood," the ambassador pointed out. Eugenides glanced at the hook on his arm and conceded the point. "Yes," he said. He seemed lost in memory. The room was quiet.

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  Memories, Sight, Blood

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• Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?" "Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed.

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  Wine, Thinking, Trying

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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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• What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Men, Kind

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

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  Boredom, Dying, Dying Of Boredom

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• 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

  Mind, Pawns, Wells

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• There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said. "So?" "If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.

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  Hands, Two, Impossible

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• The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.

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  Kings, Queens, Animal

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• The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there.

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  Queens, Eye, Air

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• He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across the palace, and they'd ignored it. If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, Eddisian soldiers on the move. He'd meant to deceive them, and he'd succeeded. It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

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  Kings, Pain, Moving

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

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Giving Up, Wall, Stones

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• As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.

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  Kings, Worry, Gone

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• The younger one looked to be completely useless.

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  Useless

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.28, Harper Collins

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

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Lying, Sleep, Ifs

  "The Queen of Attolia (Queen's Thief, Book 2)". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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