Attolia Quotes
38 quotes by 1 authors
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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,"…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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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
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He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?
— Megan Whalen Turner
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...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
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Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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How do you know that, Philo, dear?" But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. "Because, Lamion, I am not as dumb as you…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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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
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From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule," he whispered. "That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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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,…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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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.…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them." They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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