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

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

“One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

“I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls… She's too precious to give up.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

“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

Source: The Thief

“Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?"
"Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“Eddis looked at her minister, curious. “Your head?” she asked.
Attolia explained. “He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son.”
“So have we all from time to time,” Eddis said seriously.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.”

Megan Whalen Turner

“I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

“She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made"
"Oh… In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“Were you lying?"
"I never lie," he said piously. "About what?"
"The sand, the snake."
For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“The younger one looked to be completely useless.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

“The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show him to them. And I would take Attolia's advice because if I identified my enemy and destroyed him, Sounis would be safe.”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings