Answers Quote by Megan Whalen Turner

“[Eugenides] looked from Eddis to the window, where the visible sky was already dark. He looked back, his gaze a little sharper, and said,…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“He looked at her and tilted his head very slightly in wonder. He had forgotten, as he always forgot, how beautiful she was. Her…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“If Attolia could look like a queen, Eugenides was like a god revealed, transformed into something wholly unfamiliar, surrounded by the cloth-of-gold bedcover like…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“He watched Attolia out of the corner of his eye. She was still cool, like a breath of winter in the warm evening air,…

— Megan Whalen Turner

I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant." "Ouch." "Though very courageous."…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“We would have died without the additional men," he admitted matter-of-factly. "But we would have taken the entire Mede army with us. Poets would…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“Whilst he was very young, he was a soldier in the expedition against Potidaea, where Socrates lodged in the same tent with him, and…

— Plutarch

“Wisdom's daughter walks alone. The Mark of Athena burns through Rome. Twins snuff out the angel's breath, Who holds the key to endless death.…

— Rick Riordan

“Then Prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservation he could devise, stole from Hephaestus and Athena wisdom in the arts together with fire…

— Plato

“Even now, you think only in terms of the game. You are well chosen, little bird. Or are you a stoat?” Madame Spetuna bent…

— Gail Carriger

“Treachery," said the Mede. "Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name.”

— Megan Whalen Turner

“People are bound to think that you have corrupted me with your worldly ways, and that you have stolen my heart from my wife."…

— Diane Haeger