236 Quotes by Megan Whalen Turner

No! No! I’ll get the ten cups, I swear it!

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

If only wars could be won on the strength of the cheering when they begin, instead of the blood and the pain and the horror that feed the gods of discord.

If the king could make a throne seem like a stool fit for a printer’s apprentice, the queen could make a rumpled bedspread into a throne.

Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew my mother never visited without one. The pin I thought would be a comfort in case of emergency.

I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don’t you go away until I decide it isn’t you?

Cowardice has its own rewards.

And where do I find a notary public?′ the enchantress asked. ‘Where? They don’t grow on trees where I come from, and while I might be able to arrange that one did, it would take time I don’t have to waste.

I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to think I could have put almost any young man in my retinue on a white horse and they would have thrown flowers at him instead. It was not me they cared about, only what I meant to them: a cessation of hostilities, a chance for prosperity, food on the table.