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Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6) QUOTES

Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " 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. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

3 " That was inappropriate," said Attolia.
"Inappropriate?" shouted the king. "You in your state on your way to war is inappropriate!"
"I did not become inappropriate all by myself!" she shouted back.
"Do you imagine I don't know that? "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

4 " I think they have to show their worst selves sometimes in order to be sure that even at their worst they are loved. Irene knows how frightened he is."

The King didn't sound frightened.

"Any minute," said Eddis, "he will realise--"
As if her words were magic, silence fell in the tent and Eddis finished in a whisper. "How frightened she is. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

5 " Nahuseresh tells me I am not king. Well see if he really prefers the Thief. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

6 " Nahuseresh tells me I am not king. We'll see if he really prefers the Thief. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

7 " Of course,” she said, “Your Majesty.” I admired the way she could make the words sound so much like “You Idiot. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

8 " But if I hadn't lost the hand, I'd be another person entirely by now. Wishing for the hand back would be like wishing the man I already am, to be replaced by some stranger. It would be wishing my own self out of existence. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

9 " Ask yourself, Eugenides: why that orange tree? Why that tamarisk bush? She had promised you your heart’s desire while a child of hers was alone in the world and unhappy. See, Eugenides,” Moira said, holding out a finger from each of her hands and interlinking them. “Only two threads brought together, two threads that touched,” she reassured him. “Nothing more than that. And everything else left up to you. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

10 " If an author's account of any man is tidy, you must believe it has been made so in contrast with the truth, which is rarely clear and never simple. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

11 " If only wars could be won on the strength of the cheering when they begin, instead of the blood and the pain and the horror that feed the gods of discord. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

12 " That is it, Sophos. You have hit upon my greatest fear. Someone who named himself Bunny is going to outshine me on the battle field. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

13 " I’m sure Gen has a plan,” Sounis said as he held Eddis in place. “If that doesn’t frighten you, it should,” said Eddis, glowering. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

14 " Your Majesty!" Hilarion was close to begging. "Everyone is waiting."
"Tell them I died."
"Your Majesty..."
"Died, Hilarion. In the night, peacefully."
"Why would I do that?"
"Because then you could all go away and leave me alone. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

15 " Lying is just letting people believe what they want to be true. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

16 " When a messenger on a lathered horse comes to the city, he draws the eye of every person in the road. They see his direction. As he turns up the streets toward the palace, Rumor, who is born in a moment, is full-grown the next. She begins to move through the town, trailing ever more elaborate finery behind her. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

17 " Not everything that is easy for you is easy for the rest of us. Why don't you go away, Dionis? "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

18 " I asked her to leave with me on our wedding night.”
“What?” my grandfather said, his composure further weakened. He too had believed this was all a childish bluff and suddenly felt the ground shifting under his feet.
“Oh, yes. We could have been in the Epidi Islands by now, or Mur. I would have taken her anywhere she wanted,” Eugenides assured him. “She wouldn’t abandon her people—she knew how Erondites would rule if she did. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

19 " Does he expect me to rise from my death bed to fight with him?" the king asked.
"I thought you said you weren't dying"
"I've reconsidered". "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)

20 " With a scroll and a book you will look like a scholar." she said "On that horse you will look like a king."
"I might have to be a king. I don't have to look like one."
(...)
"I picked out the horse," said Sounis hastily and the king turned to him swaying a little as if with surprise.
"You Sophos? I thought you were my friend!"
"I am," the king of Sounis assured him. "He has all the fighting spirit of an apricot. His trainers have given up and sold him for farm work. Honestly, like riding a slowly moving sofa," Sounis swore. "On my honor. "

― Megan Whalen Turner , Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6)