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“It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

“If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower."
"And?" Eddis prompted.
"Well," said Eugenides, "it's a challenge.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected.
"Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant."
"Ouch."
"Though very courageous."
"Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“A thief never makes a noise by accident.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

“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

Source: The Thief

“… her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth…”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said.
"So?"
"If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“… I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

“I love stupid plans.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“It isn't deep," the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed. Eugenides didn't miss a beat.
"It is… too… deep!" he insisted, outraged.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?”

Megan Whalen Turner

“Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“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

Source: The Thief