236 Quotes by Megan Whalen Turner

She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people’s gods. No woman can be.

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 him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man.

A successful thief doesn’t depend on things being unlikely to happen,” I said.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man’s mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

The only thing I knew was that I didn’t know anything, really, about the king of the Attolians, and I didn’t trust him.

That sort of news travels faster than horses, faster than boats. The messengers of the gods carry rumors through the sky the way bees carry pollen and drop them from their wings onto the earth below.

I’m dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

Will you sit down and stop shouting?” she asked. “I’ll stop shouting. I won’t sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

He wondered how the Attolians thought Eugenides had managed to become king if he was the idiot they assumed him to be. Perhaps because they had never seen him as the Thief, with his head thrown back and a glint in his eye that made the hair on the back of a man’s neck rise up.