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141 " I woke to find I had not been murdered in my sleep. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , Thick as Thieves (The Queen's Thief, #5)
142 " Damn him, damn him, damn him. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)
143 " if you tease a dog, it bites. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)
144 " My god is not a ten-devotee-to-the-average-dozen, got-a-priest-on-every-corner kind of god who is always being badgered by his worshipers. He keeps a very close eye on me, and what may look completely stupid to you is merely a demonstration of my faith. "
145 " Everybody is always willing to throw someone else's country to the dogs. "
146 " Kings don’t move mountains as a favor to a friend, "
147 " Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come. "
148 " I was captivated. My own hair was easily as long as Olga's, but it frizzed and knotted at every opportunity. When it was combed, it didn't float in perfect fans down to my shoulders. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , Instead of Three Wishes
149 " Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of a man he despised, ran out of the strength to accept any more. He contradicted the king. "
150 " A successful thief doesn't depend on things being unlikely to happen," I said. "
― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
151 " He thought that when he had healed sufficiently, and withdrawn from the capital, he might write the magus a letter and open a correspondence on Euclid, or Thales, or the new idea from the north, that the sun and not the Earth might be the centre of the universe. "
152 " If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first. "
153 " I want my breakfast. "
154 " Only through pain can you be sure of the truth "
155 " A liar thinks everyone else lies? ... A thief thinks everyone else is stealing from him? ... A philanderer thinks everyone else is philandering. "
156 " Even a steadfast enemy was better than a waffler. "
157 " Least said, soonest mended. "
158 " Attolians did not invest much belief in their religion. They dutifully attended temple festivals and used their gods for cursing and little else. "
159 " Do not offend one power to attain the favor of another. "
160 " Don't match your weakness against your opponent's strength "