Quotes By Author: megan whalen turner
“Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head.””Is that when he cried?””He ducked,” Attolia said dryly.Grown more confident of the queen’s humor, Relius said, “I had not pictured you for a fishwife.””Lo, the transforming power of love.”
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“I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.”
“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 first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn’t think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?”
“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.”
“If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.”