Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Megan Whalen Turner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Megan Whalen Turner
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Hands
Steal
Anything
Stealing
Come
Murder
Even
King
Kings
Question
Hand
Magus
Came
Corrected
More quotes by Megan Whalen Turner
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?
Megan Whalen Turner
Were you lying? I never lie, he said piously. About what? The sand, the snake. For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.
Megan Whalen Turner
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.
Megan Whalen Turner
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.
Megan Whalen Turner
The Lord of Rags and Tatters.
Megan Whalen Turner
So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me. While I think you'll marry Sophos. I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.
Megan Whalen Turner
Dying would have been so much easier.
Megan Whalen Turner
Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.
Megan Whalen Turner
Irene- Don't call me that. You were the princess Irene the first time we met. It means 'peace', Attolia said. What name could be more inappropriate? That I be named Helen? Eddis suggested. The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war.
Megan Whalen Turner
I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.
Megan Whalen Turner
Who am I, that you should love me?
Megan Whalen Turner
I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
Megan Whalen Turner
He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
Megan Whalen Turner
That is ridiculous, she said. The king agreed. Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.
Megan Whalen Turner
Are you badly hurt? Hideously, said the king, without sounding injured at all. I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.
Megan Whalen Turner
Because you do not believe? Oh, no, said Attolia bitterly. Because I believe and do not choose to worship.
Megan Whalen Turner
I am very good at groveling.
Megan Whalen Turner
I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.
Megan Whalen Turner
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.
Megan Whalen Turner
...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.
Megan Whalen Turner
