It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them." They were, too. The queen turned to… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“You will make the boy Thief king?" he said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule," he whispered. "That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Just asleep," Eddis reassured her. At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Why didn't you tell me to take Attolia's advice from the beginning?" "I thought you should figure it out. What you learn… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said. "So?" "If it's impossible to steal them… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
How do you know that, Philo, dear?" But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. "Because, Lamion, I am not as… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
It isn't deep," the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
