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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.

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Megan Whalen Turner
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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I'll be your minister-- Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind. I would never steal from you, he'd said hotly. Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings? That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it. My earrings? What earrings?
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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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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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Why didn't you tell me to take Attolia's advice from the beginning? I thought you should figure it out. What you learn for yourself, you will know forever, said Eugenides. Pol used to say that, said Sounis, surprised. I learned it from him. I just wish to my god that I had his patience for the process.
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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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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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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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Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.
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Dying would have been so much easier.
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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 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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Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man.
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I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.
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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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How do you know that, Philo, dear? But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. Because, Lamion, I am not as dumb as you think I am, even if you are. By the time Lamion had parsed this to make sure that there was in fact an insult at the end of it, Hilarion had laid a restraining hand on his arm.
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All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.
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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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A thief never makes a noise by accident.
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