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He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

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Megan Whalen Turner Attolia Eugenides Love Marriage Royalty

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.

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Megan Whalen Turner Inspirational

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.

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Megan Whalen Turner Eugenides Humor Wine

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?

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Megan Whalen Turner Humor

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

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Megan Whalen Turner Happiness

Mother why does the River not riseIt is not the River's timeWhy does the seed not sproutIt is not the seed's timeWhy does the rain not fallthe leaf not unfurl itselfWhere is the hind and why does she not graze the fields before usit is not their timeThe River knows its timeThe seed knows its time The rain the leaf and the hindThey know their timeThe River will rise the seed will sproutThe rains come down and the leaves unfurlThe hind will bring her children to graze before usAll in their time

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Megan Whalen Turner Time

The Attolians liked to point out with a snicker that there was no sign anywhere of the king's hand at work.

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Megan Whalen Turner Humour

Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me, I’d failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.

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Megan Whalen Turner A Conspiracy Of Kings Following Leadership Responsibility Sophos

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

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Megan Whalen Turner Family

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

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Megan Whalen Turner Decisions Influence Psychology

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

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Megan Whalen Turner Eugenides Loyalty Teleus The King Of Attolia Trust

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

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Megan Whalen Turner Survival Trust

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

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Megan Whalen Turner Independence Isolation Loneliness Privacy

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

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Megan Whalen Turner Young Adult

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.

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Megan Whalen Turner Eugenides Queen S Thief Young Adult

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

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Megan Whalen Turner Dialog Dialogue Fantasy Young Adult

Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining?Yes.I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot.I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you.I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.

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Megan Whalen Turner Believe Hero Whining

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

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Megan Whalen Turner Lies Lying Tricksters

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

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Megan Whalen Turner Character Eugenides Perseverance

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

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Megan Whalen Turner Choices Responsibility

Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his. He was supposed to treat me politely in spite of my subservient position, and I was supposed to be grateful.For my part, I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. I might bow to the superior force of the magus and Pol, but I wasn't going to bow to him. Neither of us moved.

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Megan Whalen Turner Fa Hierarchy Pride

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

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Megan Whalen Turner Responsibility Serve

I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.

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Megan Whalen Turner Eugenides Good Advice Logic

That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach me to go hide in a temple.

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Megan Whalen Turner Gods Message Whining

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

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Megan Whalen Turner Foolishness Planning Wit
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