Megan Whalen Turner Quotes - Page 4

• Costis bowed stiffly. “I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.

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  Loss, Order, Bed

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• He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—” explained the magus. “But surely—” “—and then we were robbed on the road.” “Ah,” said the king, “the danger in being anonymous.

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  Kings, Clothes, Safety

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

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  Queens, Wall, Views

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• Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness.

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  Liars, Boys, Voice

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• Sabía que aparecería en alguna parte de la historia", intervino Eugenides. "Oh, no", dijo Phresine, "Este era un humilde sirviente". "Ay". "Aunque muy valiente". "Yo no", susurró Eugenides a su almohada.

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  Humble, Would Be, Stories

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• Por favor", susurró. Su voz era baja pero clara. "No me hagas más daño". Attolia retrocedió. Una vez, de niña, había tirado su zapatilla con rabia y había derribado un ánfora de aceite de su pedestal. El ánfora era una de sus favoritas. Se había hecho añicos y el aroma del aceite para el cabello que contenía había perdurado durante días. Aún recordaba el aroma, aunque no sabía qué le había hecho recordarlo en aquella apestosa celda.

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  Hurt, Children, Hair

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Queen of Attolia”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

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  Men, Wish, Needs

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• Soy muy bueno arrastrándome.

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  Groveling, Very Good

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• I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.

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  Care, Fine, Felt

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• Dying would have been so much easier.

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  Dying, Easier, Has Beens

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• No se casó contigo para convertirse en rey. Se convirtió en rey porque quería casarse contigo.

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  Kings, Wanted, King Of Attolia

  "The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2006.

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• 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.

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  Heartfelt, Awful, Way

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.21, HarperCollins

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

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  Loneliness, Independence, Privacy

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• She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand. “Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still rough. The queen’s voice was cool. “How embarrassing,” she said, looking at his maimed arm. The king looked up then, and followed her gaze. If it was embarrassing to wake like a child screaming from a nightmare, how much more embarrassing to be the reason your husband woke screaming. A quick smile visited the king’s face. “Ouch,” he said, referring to more than the pain in his side. “Ouch,” he said again as the queen gathered him into her arms.

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  Kings, Queens, Children

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• Lo que sacó fue una mordaza de madera que le ponen a alguien en la boca antes de hacer algo drástico, como cortarle una pierna.

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  Cutting, Mouths, Legs

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.18, HarperCollins

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• The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above my knee ready to shake me if I fell asleep. He shook hard and resorted to pinching periodically.

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  Eye, Hands, Thieves

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.16, HarperCollins

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• 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.

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  Moving, Cat, Sick

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Wine, Thinking, Trying

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• 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.

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  Real, Mistake, Hands

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• Ese -señaló con la cabeza la puerta cerrada- gobernará algo más que Atolia antes de acabar. Es un Annux, un rey de reyes.

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  Kings, Doors, Done

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• You are treasure beyond any price.

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  Tesoro

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• After one moment of gripped immobility, the queen bent to kiss the king lightly on one closed eyelid, then on the other. She said, 'I love your eyes.' She kissed him on either cheek, near the small lobe of his ear. 'I love your ears, and I love'-she paused as she kissed him gently on the lips-'every single one of your ridiculous lies.' The king opened his eyes and smiled at the queen in a companionship that was as unassailable as it was unfathomable.

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  Kings, Queens, Lying

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• ¿Quieres que te devuelva la mano, Eugenides? ¿Y perder Atolia? ¿Y ver a Atolia perdida ante los medos? Eugenides tenía los ojos abiertos. Delante de su cara, el suelo estaba lleno de trocitos de cristal que brillaban a la luz de las velas. Ya tienes tu respuesta, Ladronzuelo.

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  Eye, Glasses, Hands

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• Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.

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  Law, Natural, Natural Law

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• All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.

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  Lying, Feet, Forever

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