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Firsts Quotes by Megan Whalen Turner
- You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first.
- Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
- Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more…
- Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took…
- I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think…
- He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across…
- It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be…
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