Megan Whalen Turner Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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 grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again

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  Fields, Failing, Slave

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• Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water," the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.

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  Thinking, Water, Silence

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• ...I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing. "Helping you," said Dirnes. "Why?" They put the soldier down, and Ochto straightened to look me in the eye. "Because I know nothing about kings and princes, but I know men.

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  Kings, Eye, Men

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

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• The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances.

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  Uncles, Father, Years

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

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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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• We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made" "Oh... In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand.

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  Real, Mistake, Hands

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• After one moment of gripped immobility, the queen bent to kiss the king lightly on one closed eyelid, then on the other. She said, 'I love your eyes.' She kissed him on either cheek, near the small lobe of his ear. 'I love your ears, and I love'-she paused as she kissed him gently on the lips-'every single one of your ridiculous lies.' The king opened his eyes and smiled at the queen in a companionship that was as unassailable as it was unfathomable.

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  Kings, Queens, Lying

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• Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight. 'You have your answer, Little Thief.

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  Eye, Glasses, Hands

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• Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.

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  Perfect, Ordinary, Heroines

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• 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.

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  Giving Up, Pain, Grief

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• Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?

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  Character, Men, Thinking

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

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• One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.

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  War, Care, Ambassadors

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• What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

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  World, Weapons, Strange

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

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• Costis bowed stiffly. “I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.

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  Loss, Order, Bed

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• But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Independence, Privacy

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

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  Giving Up, Wall, Stones

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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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• Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness.

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  Liars, Boys, Voice

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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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• I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to think I could have put almost any young man in my retinue on a white horse and they would have thrown flowers at him instead. It was not me they cared about, only what I meant to them: a cessation of hostilities, a chance for prosperity, food on the table.

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  Horse, Cheer, Flower

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

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• 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.

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  Mean, Men, Voice

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

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• Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed.

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  Wall, Believe, Sleep

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