236 Quotes by Megan Whalen Turner

Ion, I'm sorry. I apologize"(...)"Your Majesty! Are you ill?" he demanded" You have been quiet this morning. And now you are being... amiable.

... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

We have a saying in my country that a beautiful woman deserves love." (...)"Ugly women do not?" asked the queen as if genuinely curious.

Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed.

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

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.