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81 " The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , A Conspiracy of Kings (The Queen's Thief, #4)
82 " She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus. There is the niggling fear that if you fall out with a Thief, he might see it as his right and responsibility to remove you. There are some checks, of course. There is only ever one Thief. They are prohibited from owning any property. Their training inevitably generates the isolation that makes them independent, but also keeps them from forming alliances that might become threats to the throne. It is not the folly you might think. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)
83 " Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed. "
84 " I wouldn't destroy an entire house to destroy one man. But I would destroy a man to destroy a house. "
85 " Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King. "
86 " 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? "
87 " 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. "
88 " The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened. "
89 " He wondered how the Attolians thought Eugenides had managed to become king if he was the idiot they assumed him to be. Perhaps because they had never seen him as the Thief, with his head thrown back and a glint in his eye that made the hair on the back of a man’s neck rise up. "
90 " But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character? "
91 " They're going to leave me. All I wanted to do was lie in the dry prickly 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 are halfway to Methana. Where ever Methana might be. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
92 " If the king could make a throne seem like a stool fit for a printer's apprentice, the queen could make a rumpled bedspread into a throne. "
93 " I lied. "
94 " Wrong arm, dear. "
95 " As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway. "
96 " It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain. "
97 " 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 "
98 " When I am actually willing to marry you, I will wear your earrings. Don't wait for it, Thief. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)
99 " You are treasure beyond any price. "
100 " Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted. "