D. M. Turner Quotes

As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?

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.

Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.

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

The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

Costis bowed stiffly. “I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.

Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.

[I had a]...Second bowl of oatmeal. It was a little bit gloppy.

The younger one looked to be completely useless.

As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.

His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.

Dying would have been so much easier.

I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.

I am very good at groveling.

Tell me a story then...keep me occupied." "A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go on.

I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant." "Ouch." "Though very courageous." "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.

I have a whole guard room full of brawny veterans who'd enjoy a chance to drag two Eddisians out of here, particularly if you kicked a lot and they could kick you back.

Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing.

What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.

A little danger adds spice to life.

Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.

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

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.

A thief never makes a noise by accident.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

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.

The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.

You are treasure beyond any price.

That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.

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.

We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made" "Oh... In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand.

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.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me." "While I think you'll marry Sophos." "I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

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

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

How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

We need people to fight back. So many people are depressed, and they've become preoccupied with the negatives of this [Donald Trump] presidency. That can cripple people mentally.

When you win, you can afford to be gracious, you can afford to have a little more mercy.