Megan Whalen Turner Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Wine, Giving

• One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

• 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

  Loyalty, Giving, Easy

• He looked gravely at the king. "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. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last." The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain. "Was that a joke?" he asked.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Loyalty, Kings, Giving

• I am an ambassador," Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. "You cannot shoot." "I don't mean to," I reassured him, still smiling. I adopted his soothing tones. "Indeed, you are the only man I won't shoot. But if I aimed at anyone else, it might give others a dangerously mistaken sense of their own safety." I raised my voice a trifle, though it wasn't really necessary. "We will have another vote, Xorcheus." They elected me Sounis. It was unanimous.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Mean, Men, Voice

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

• Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Feet, Giving, Doe

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.22, Harper Collins

• 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

• I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to other gods, but my pride, too, and my rage at all gods, everything for you.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Giving Up, Pain, Grief

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