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1 " Mother why does the River not riseIt is not the River's timeWhy does the seed not sproutIt is not the seed's timeWhy does the rain not fallthe leaf not unfurl itselfWhere is the hind and why does she not graze the fields before usit is not their timeThe River knows its timeThe seed knows its time The rain the leaf and the hindThey know their timeThe River will rise the seed will sproutThe rains come down and the leaves unfurlThe hind will bring her children to graze before usAll in their time "
― Megan Whalen Turner , Thick as Thieves (The Queen's Thief, #5)
2 " The Attolians liked to point out with a snicker that there was no sign anywhere of the king's hand at work. "
3 " I woke to find I had not been murdered in my sleep. "
4 " Kings don’t move mountains as a favor to a friend, "
5 " The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known. "
6 " Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless. "
7 " The only thing I knew was that I didn't know anything, really, about the king of the Attolians, and I didn't trust him. "
8 " The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the very one whose hand she had cut off. There was a match made in hell. "
9 " The Attolian king obviously had a deep well of spite and I would've appreciated his low cunning more if I hadn't thought the Attolian was about to wring my neck. "
10 " It was like being lectured by an earnest, oversized child. "
11 " Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner. "
12 " 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. "
13 " 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. "
14 " We do better when we are praised and worse when we feel unappreciated for our work. "
15 " 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. "