« All Kings Quotes · Megan Whalen Turner's Page
Kings Quotes by Megan Whalen Turner
- As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head…
- Tell me a story then...keep me occupied." "A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go on.
- Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.
- ...her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth...
- 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…
- 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…
- Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wall he's going to hang…
- 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…
- That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.
- The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes…
- 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…
- 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…
- I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.
- I want you to steal something." I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you." "If I were you," said…
- Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
- Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost…
- Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do…
- Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying. "Green wood,"…
- One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination…
- If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out…
- You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed a man that…
- ...I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing. "Helping you," said Dirnes. "Why?" They put the…
- The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.…
- 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…
- Costis followed, telling himself that it wasn't true that he and the king and even the stone under their feet were nothing but tissue, transparently…
More Ways to Read Kings Quotes by Megan Whalen Turner
More Kings Quotes
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for… — Michele Bachmann
- I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could… — Josephine Baker
- Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! — Honore de Balzac
- I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an… — Antonio Banderas
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King… — Sarah Bernhardt
- As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant
- Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. — Ambrose Bierce
- Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them… — Mark Bittman