Megan Whalen Turner: Likeness

Megan Whalen Turner is American children's writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“That is ridiculous," she said.
The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.”

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

“… 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

“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

“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

Source: The Thief

“So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.”

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

“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 Attolia could look like a queen, Eugenides was like a god revealed, transformed into something wholly unfamiliar, surrounded by the cloth-of-gold bedcover like a deity on an altar, passionless and calculating.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“The factory doesn't like to hear too much talk about things it doesn't believe in. Contrary to what you may have heard, the factory has never found a single problem caused by ghosts. So if you meet any ectoplasmic spirits up there in the high crane, I suggest you be polite and they'll probably be polite right back. You're up there alone for fourteen hours a day, and you might find it's nice to have someone to talk to.”

Megan Whalen Turner

The Foreman
Instead of Three Wishes, Factory