236 Quotes by Megan Whalen Turner

Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn’t force me to enter her service.

I’m sure Gen has a plan,” Sounis said as he held Eddis in place. “If that doesn’t frighten you, it should,” said Eddis, glowering.

Pol knew,” said Sophos from the window.

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 thin, and that for a moment, the only real thing in the universe had been there on the parapet with the king.

Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.

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 narrowed while the prison keeper’s widened.

Only through pain can you be sure of the truth.

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he’d lie then, too.

Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come.