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Megan Whalen Turner
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.
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No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.
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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.
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Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
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Who am I, that you should love me?
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I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
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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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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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Because you do not believe? Oh, no, said Attolia bitterly. Because I believe and do not choose to worship.
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I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.
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I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.
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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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As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?
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I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window. You what? Fell out the window. That one over there. She [Edwina] gestured to the curtain behind her. I broke my back. My spine is all wobbly now, but it doesn't hurt.
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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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If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
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Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.
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Then come out, said the king, helping him, knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.
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I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.
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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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