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The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1) QUOTES

The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1) QUOTES

1 " ... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

2 " 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 , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

3 " The Lord of Rags and Tatters. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

4 " Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his. He was supposed to treat me politely in spite of my subservient position, and I was supposed to be grateful.

For my part, I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. I might bow to the superior force of the magus and Pol, but I wasn't going to bow to him. Neither of us moved. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

5 " I am a master of foolhardy plans. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

6 " All I wanted to do was lie in the dry 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're halfway to Methana. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

7 " A thief never makes a noise by accident. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

8 " Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

9 " I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

10 " That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

11 " Dying would have been so much easier. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

12 " 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. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

13 " A little danger adds spice to life. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

14 " 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. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

15 " And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

16 " Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

17 " Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

18 " All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

19 " The younger one looked to be completely useless. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

20 " 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)