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The younger one looked to be completely useless.
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Megan Whalen Turner
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
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Dying would have been so much easier.
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Who am I, that you should love me?
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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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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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Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.
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That is ridiculous, she said. The king agreed. Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.
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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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Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.
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From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.
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His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.
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She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.
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All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.
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When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that? Yes, Your Majesty, he said meekly.
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Tell me a story then...keep me occupied. A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story? Insight, said the king, Go on.
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-You know-- Eddis hesitated, not sure how far to push the Attolian Queen. -Go on. Attolia inclined her head. -I was going to say that you look like a polecat when you smile like that. -Do I? Attolia still smiled. -You look a little vulpine yourself. The two queens sat for a moment in happy agreement.
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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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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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...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.
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No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.
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