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Damn him, damn him, damn him.
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if you tease a dog, it bites.
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My god is not a ten-devotee-to-the-average-dozen, got-a-priest-on-every-corner kind of god who is always being badgered by his worshipers. He keeps a very close eye on me, and what may look completely stupid to you is merely a demonstration of my faith.
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Everybody is always willing to throw someone else's country to the dogs.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Kings don't move mountains as a favor to a friend,
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come.
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I was captivated. My own hair was easily as long as Olga's, but it frizzed and knotted at every opportunity. When it was combed, it didn't float in perfect fans down to my shoulders.
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Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of a man he despised, ran out of the strength to accept any more. He contradicted the king.
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A successful thief doesn't depend on things being unlikely to happen," I said."
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the-queen-s-thief
the-thief
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He reached for a tabletop and ran his hands over it, clutching the edge until his knuckles turned white. He wanted to know that it was solid. Eddis knew that all the world would seem to him insubstantial, as if it might tear away and reveal something else infinitely larger and more terrifying.
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He thought that when he had healed sufficiently, and withdrawn from the capital, he might write the magus a letter and open a correspondence on Euclid, or Thales, or the new idea from the north, that the sun and not the Earth might be the centre of the universe.
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If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.
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Mother why does the River not rise It is not the River's time Why does the seed not sprout It is not the seed's time Why does the rain not fall the leaf not unfurl itself Where is the hind and why does she not graze the fields before us it is not their time The River knows its time The seed knows its time The rain the leaf and the hind They know their time The River will rise the seed will sprout The rains come down and the leaves unfurl T..
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I want my breakfast.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Only through pain can you be sure of the truth
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Least said, soonest mended.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Attolians did not invest much belief in their religion. They dutifully attended temple festivals and used their gods for cursing and little else.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Do not offend one power to attain the favor of another.
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Upset at the sight of blood?" he said. "Not my wife, Ornon." "Your blood, " the ambassador pointed out. Eugenides glanced at the hook in his arm and conceded the point. "Yes," he said."
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Don't match your weakness against your opponent's strength
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The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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A liar thinks everyone else lies? ... A thief thinks everyone else is stealing from him? ... A philanderer thinks everyone else is philandering.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Even a steadfast enemy was better than a waffler.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to the throne; he dances with others or he moves from place to place through the room. The court thinks he is trying to be gracious, sharing his attention. Only I see that he moves always toward the empty spot and the court moves always after him. He is like a dog trying to escape its own tail. He indulged himself in one brief moment of privacy and almost died of it. Relius, he hates being k..
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Keeping a private guard this large is like using a wolf to guard the farm. It may keep off the other wolves, but sooner or later it will eat you.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Weak kings who lost their tempers were notoriously destructive.
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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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That won't be necessary," said the magus coolly. "No one would mistake you for anything but a tool, Gen. If a sword is well made, does the credit go to the blacksmith or to his hammer? How much smarter than a hammer can you be if you flaunt the proof of your crimes in a wineshop?" I flushed, and he laughed. If I hadn't already been angry, it might not have seemed unkind laughter."
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Useless the Elder was looking at me in amusement. "Not exactly stalwart, are you?" he said."
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Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.
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At one point I muttered, "You learn something new every day." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope."
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She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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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.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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I do believe that Akretenesh saw no differences between a woman who was a queen and one who was a seamstress, though he would recognize all the differences in the world between a prince and a farmer.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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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. ..
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hierarchy
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Ruang perpustakaan tidak pernah cukup untuk menyimpan buku yang tidak pernah dibaca, jadi pustakawan memeriksa catatannya setiap saat dan menarik buku-buku yang tidak lagi dibaca orang. Kau bisa menyelamatkan buku hanya dengan membacanya. Tentu saja, kau mungkin tidak menyukainya. Tapi kau tidak pernah tahu sampai kau mencobanya, dan mungkin, kau akan suka.
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Speaking of the king to the queen--He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Cowardice has its own rewards
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Costis, I am speechless!" "Not noticeably, Your Majesty."
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humor
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lay there on my pallet, hoping it would improve soon and wondering, in a distant, unreproachful sort of way, if I was any kind of man at all, and decided that I probably wasn't.
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The king's attendants remained, digesting the fact that their helpless, inept king had promised his wife to destroy the house of Erondites in six months and had done it in ninety-eight days.
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Eugenides] looked from Eddis to the window, where the visible sky was already dark. He looked back, his gaze a little sharper, and said, "You forgot me." Eddis shoved her hands into the pockets of her trousers.. "Don't lie," Eugenides said, pressing her. "You charged off in a haze of glory to chase the vile Mede from our shore, and you never gave me a thought until they were gone." He twisted to address Attolia. "You forgot me, too," he acc..
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It might have been preferable," Eddis admitted, dryly, "if you had thrown off your chains of bondage solely for love of me. It would certainly have been more flattering." Standing so near to him, she was looking up into his face and watching it closely. "I am willing to accept, however, that we are real people, not characters in a play. We do not, all of us, need to be throwing inkwells. If we are compatible with one another, is that not su..
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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Faith did return in extremis
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