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• I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

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  Boredom, Dying, Dying Of Boredom

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• "Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you."

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  Love You, Decision, Want

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

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• Ah," said the magus, understanding at once. "I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again." "Surely that's unlikely," said Sounis. "I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us," said the magus.

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  Mean, Thinking, Understanding

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

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  Men, Names, Needs

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.40, HarperCollins

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• The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

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  Rags, Lord

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.45, HarperCollins

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• This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.

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  Stupid, Careers, Said

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• No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

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  Bed, Rewards, Glory

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• Just asleep," Eddis reassured her. At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again and pressed her hand to her chest where it hurt.

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  Hurt, Hands, Voice

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• I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.

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  Masters, Plans, Foolhardy

  "The Thief". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 1996.

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• Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.

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  Men, Breathing, Three

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

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  People, Unhappy, Wonder

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

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  Lying, Men, Snakes

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• I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?" "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it." "My earrings?" "What earrings?

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  Missing, Necklaces, Way

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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• She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.

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  Nurse, Darkness, Wish

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• Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?

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  World, Get Up, Inverted

  "The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, February 2006.

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• Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves. The king smiled. "Cat got your tongue?" "Your Majesty, you are drunk," Costis pleaded. "I am. What's your excuse?

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  Kings, Wall, Cat

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• He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.

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  Sticks

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard him once confess that he sometimes thinks the distance is beyond him. He always jumps, Your Majesty. The Thieves are not trained in self-preservation. I beg you would take my advice.

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  Distance, Thinking, Self

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• She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

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  Queens, Stones, Ever After

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• He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across the palace, and they'd ignored it. If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, Eddisian soldiers on the move. He'd meant to deceive them, and he'd succeeded. It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

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  Kings, Pain, Moving

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• In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.

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  Kings, Queens, Afternoon

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• "Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth. "Do you believe me?" he asked. "Yes," she answered. "Do you love me?" "Yes." "I love you." And she believed him.

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  Queens, Believe, Moving

  "The Queen of Attolia (Queen's Thief, Book 2)". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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• 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.

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  Country, Kings, Today

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The King of Attolia”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Because you do not believe?" "Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship.

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  Believe, Worship, Said

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• 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.

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  Kings, Real, Feet

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