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181 " It was like being lectured by an earnest, oversized child. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , Thick as Thieves (The Queen's Thief, #5)
182 " Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner. "
183 " That sort of news travels faster than horses, faster than boats. The messengers of the gods carry rumors through the sky the way bees carry pollen and drop them from their wings onto the earth below. "
184 " Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I’d failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , A Conspiracy of Kings (The Queen's Thief, #4)
185 " They are all accepted,” I said. It wasn’t important anymore. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
186 " Pol knew,” said Sophos from the window. "
187 " He couldn’t know that I’d overstayed my welcome one night while creeping through his megaron and had crawled up through the space where the pipes of the hypocaust ran to hide in his treasure room. I had slept for a day in stuffy darkness on the ridged tops of his treasure trunks. "
188 " And she had the most appealing of feminine virtues, especially in a queen. She's easily led. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)
189 " The gate was made out of blocks of stone bigger across than I am tall. Something else supposedly built by the old gods, it was topped by a solid stone lintel with two carved lions that were supposed to roar if an enemy of the king passed beneath them. At least they were said to be lions. The stone had been weathered by the centuries, and only indistinct monster figures remained, facing each other over a short pillar. They remained silent as we passed under. "
190 " He would go east and fight the emperor’s wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn’t a matter of theory in a tiny office in the emperor’s palace. It was the work of their lives and the end of many of them. "
191 " We do better when we are praised and worse when we feel unappreciated for our work. "
192 " Will you sit down and stop shouting?” she asked. “I’ll stop shouting. I won’t sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots. "
193 " where there is no peace, there are no trees. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)
194 " Nahuseresh had attributed her reluctance to an entirely understandable female timidity. He didn’t seem to understand that the people of Eddis had very little to do all winter beyond develop superior artisan skills and train for war. "
195 " He shrugged. "We all spend our time under the sign of the idiot," he said, and the matter seemed settled, at least as far as he was concerned. "
196 " I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back. "
197 " Ion, I'm sorry. I apologize"(...)"Your Majesty! Are you ill?" he demanded" You have been quiet this morning. And now you are being... amiable. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)
198 " 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. "
199 " I have seen too many men willing to fight to the death over a spilled cup of wine to think dying for a cause makes that cause just. "
200 " Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head.""Is that when he cried?""He ducked," Attolia said dryly.Grown more confident of the queen's humor, Relius said, "I had not pictured you for a fishwife.""Lo, the transforming power of love. "