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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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Megan Whalen Turner
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Thinking
King
Kings
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Tell
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Stories
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Insight

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In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.
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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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Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
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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?
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You are treasure beyond any price.
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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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That one,-he nodded toward the closed door- will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.
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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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Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.
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Ornon said, I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard him once confess that he sometimes thinks the distance is beyond him. He always jumps, Your Majesty. The Thieves are not trained in self-preservation. I beg you would take my advice.
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The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there.
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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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A thief never makes a noise by accident.
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I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance, never forget that it's as likely to step on your foot as look at you.
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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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Why did you come if not to murder my king? I came to steal his magus. You can't, said the magus in question. I can steal anything, Eugenides corrected him, even with one hand.
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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.
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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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