Megan Whalen Turner Quotes About Safety

Quotes about: Safety

• 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.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Fall, Hands, Safety

• 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

• He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—” explained the magus. “But surely—” “—and then we were robbed on the road.” “Ah,” said the king, “the danger in being anonymous.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Clothes, Safety

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

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